Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

Large pieces of brain coral are washing ashore on Texas beaches, likely due to storms or other underwater disturbances. Brain coral, a slow-growing hard coral, forms important reef habitats in the ...

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Yu believes humanity still has a chance to act and restore corals. Frustrating attempts to rebuild Hong Kong's coral ...

Coral reefs exist in more than 100 countries, supporting 25% of marine life and benefitting an estimated 1 billion people. But half of the world’s coral reefs have died since 1950, and the rest could ...

Cailyn Joseph, a PhD student in Andrew Baker's lab, organizes brain and elkhorn coral in Honduras before the trip to Miami. MIAMI — Off the northern coast of Honduras, thick stands of endangered ...

As more than two-thirds of Singapore’s coral reefs have been lost to coastal development and reclamation since the 1960s, the ...

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From hotter temperatures that contribute to ocean acidification and coral degradation to instances of coral bleaching caused by a combination of warmer oceans, overfishing and pollution, Caribbean ...

Record-warm ocean temperatures off the coast of Florida last summer stressed an already vulnerable coral reef system, prompting a massive die-off across the only living barrier reef in the continental ...

With its year-round sun and excellent visibility, the waters of the Caribbean offer some of the best scuba diving in the ...