MIAMI — Earth just reached its first catastrophic climate tipping point. Coral reefs around the world are facing widespread dieback. “Unless we take radical steps, I fear that we’re going to see the ...

When Andrew Baker looks out at the vacant lot next to his office on Virginia Key, he doesn’t see the trees or grass that are there now. He sees a factory of the future. One story tall, roughly the ...

Scientists at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School wait for another imported brain coral -- this time from the Cayman Islands -- to release bundles of eggs and sperm. Once collected, they use ...

Beneath a cloak of darkness, illuminated only by glow sticks and red-filtered flashlights, researchers waited underwater off Key Largo hoping to witness one of the rarest events of sex in the sea.

Surface-deployed substrates for coral spawning and colonization – credit ReefSeed In the Maldives, a mobile coral spawning system has been trialed with scintillating success, as 10,000 juvenile corals ...

Canon EMEA (Canon-CNA.com) is partnering with Nature Seychelles, a leading non-profit organisation in the Western Indian Ocean, and the Coral Spawning Lab (CSL), to lead a first-of-its-kind project ...

SINGAPORE - Singapore’s coral reefs had a muted reproductive season in 2025, not because of any oil spill that occurred in the last year, but most likely because of mass coral bleaching in 2024, one ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is being literally chipped away at to build private aquariums. Now conservationists are raising the alarm. Fishing boats in Portsmith, a suburb of Cairns in Far North ...

Thai researchers have successfully enabled corals to better tolerate global warming, in an effort to mitigate the risk of their extinction. Coral bleaching occurs when corals lose their vibrant ...

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium's International Coral Gene Bank is using cryopreservation to store coral sperm for indefinite periods, potentially centuries. This technology allows for the creation ...