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 ...

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 ...

Sought-after pieces of coral are sold all around the world, including at rave-like trade shows known as "frag swaps". The ...

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 ...