Volunteers and coral scientists from the Florida Aquarium and I.CARE (Islamorada Conservation and Restoration Education) came ...

Bruno van Swinderen receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Adam D Hines does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

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 ...

ALLIGATOR REEF, off the Florida Keys — Three and a half miles off the Florida Keys, Kylie Smith kicked to the surface of the ocean, then looked back down through her scuba mask to confirm what she had ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – For the second year in a row, The Florida Aquarium was successfully able to make grooved brain coral spawn in a controlled laboratory setting. The aquarium’s Induced Spawning Lab ...

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 ...

Baby corals are just as susceptible as adults to a deadly disease that has been spreading across Florida's reefs since 2014, according to a new study. The findings showed that stony coral tissue loss ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Simulated moonlight. Perfect temperatures. A hum of bubbling saltwater. A team of marine biologists had done everything they could to set the stage for something akin to a romantic ...

Researchers have orchestrated a "baby boom" of corals that will help fortify the reef systems off the Florida coasts that were heavily degraded as a result of record ocean warming. The Florida ...

It’s been eight years since a deadly outbreak of disease began ravaging Florida’s coral reefs. Now, scientists worry it has reached the Gulf of Mexico’s sole marine sanctuary. Sitting about 80 miles ...

Armed with scrub brushes, young scuba divers took to the waters of Florida’s Alligator Reef in late July to try to help corals struggling to survive 2023’s extraordinary marine heat wave. They ...