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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Several meters underwater off the coast of Bonaire, a small island in the south ...

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

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

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 ...

GALVESTON (AP) - Divers descending into azure waters far off the Texas coast dip below a horizon dotted with oil and gas platforms into an otherworldly landscape of undersea mountains crusted with ...

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 ...