A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and disease. It could be used to restore dying Caribbean reefs—if scientists can figure out how it survived. Despite being exposed to ...

These changes will have huge impacts on coastal ecosystems around the world, including coral reefs. To understand these future impacts, it can be useful to understand similar events from history. Our ...

The fate of coral reefs has been written with a degree of certainty rare in climate science: at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming, most are expected to die. This is not a ...

And yet, it is a subject few marine scientists care to dwell on. "We are having a hard time imagining that all coral reefs really could die off," said Melanie McField, a Caribbean reef expert ...

Despite being concentrated in a small surface area of the Earth’s oceans, coral reefs are home to roughly a quarter of all marine life. The two biggest reefs — the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and ...

Community members are invited to participate in the Berkshires Satellite Reef, part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef, a communal art project entailing the crowd-sourced creation of a life-size ...

Credit: Theresa Ong and Airbus The study analyzes the spatial distribution patterns of “grazing halos” surrounding coral reefs. Around the world, coral reefs are often surrounded by noticeable bands ...

Coral reefs are often celebrated as the rainforests of the sea due to their vivid beauty and biodiversity. These underwater ecosystems support a wealth of marine life and provide critical resources ...

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Coral reefs are vital to marine biodiversity, but their livelihood is under threat due to climate instability and the impacts of human activities. Rehabilitating marine environments requires innov ...

These baby corals, all born in 2022 and 2023 at the aquarium, came from rescued parent colonies originally from the Florida Reef. Keri O’Neil is the director of the Aquarium's coral conservation ...