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Project ReefLink, a nationwide community science project, invites participants to sample microbes from home and institutional aquarium corals to understand how their native microbes can confer ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Researchers from the Shedd Aquarium just returned from the Florida Keys and are sharing their findings on the impact of rising ocean temperatures. Those researchers focused their work ...

One of the great things about Houston is how close we are to the beach and the Gulf of Mexico. More and more people here are deciding to bring the ocean home by diving into salt-water reef tanks. This ...

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to transplant crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off ...

Thanks to corals’ deep-sea cousins, even the most extreme environmental changes—global warming or sudden, severe variations ...

The United States is the main market for “ornamental” marine fish, those that end up as pets in aquariums. Now, a new study ...

Floridians are not used to hearing the word “extinct” applied to species that play significant roles in the state’s ...

A diver explores one of Florida's coral nurseries where staghorn are grown to replant on reefs. In a breakthrough that could lead to more enduring coral restoration work, scientists for the first time ...

As climate change makes the ocean hotter, marine heat waves are causing coral bleaching—when a healthy, colorful reef suddenly expels algae. The reef turns white, and tiny coral polyps, which had been ...