Floridians are not used to hearing the word "extinct" applied to species that play significant roles in the state's ...

Coral reefs, once thriving underwater cities teeming with life, now face an unprecedented crisis. Scientists have declared that coral reefs have become the first major environmental system on Earth to ...

In a few weeks, the water temperature hit a high that triggered the coral to jettison the beneficial algae living in its ...

Coral reefs have long been celebrated as biodiversity hotspots—but new research shows they have also played a much deeper ...

As ocean temperatures rise as a result of climate change, coral reef ecosystems face a high risk of extinction, according to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Over 50% of corals have been lost ...

In a lab at the University of Miami, there are tanks of knobby, tan-colored corals from Florida, Honduras and the Cayman Islands. They've been drafted into a sort of coral Olympics, as scientists look ...

In an article published on August 9th in the science journal Bioscience, coral reef expert Peter Edmunds argues for further focus on the undersea creature. "If we're going to have a chance to really ...

Acoustic enrichment is not a magic fix, but the controlled tests off Maui and the broader lab-to-field experiments in the scientific literature suggest that sound could be a relatively low-cost ...

Researchers compared DNA from corals and their symbiotic organisms from two sites along the Pacific coast of Panama to better understand how the different members of the coral holobiont influence ...

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Floridians are not used to hearing the word “extinct” applied to species that play significant roles in the state’s ecological and economic landscape. So last week, when researchers with the National ...