The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first battle between aircraft carriers ... the less heavily damaged Shokaku was not ready until a week after Midway was over. The major U.S. errors were largely due ...

Coral reefs face unprecedented threats from climate change. As of August 20, 2024, 75.0% of coral reefs worldwide have been impacted by bleaching-level heat stress since January 1, 2023.

Recently, another study on corals in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea that surrounds it showed that reef temperatures during five recent coral bleaching events were the highest ...

Scientists have moved about about 300 endangered sea corals from South Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast for research and restoration.

The sea surface temperature in the Fijian archipelago in the southwestern Pacific is now at its maximum for more than 600 years. This finding is the result of an international research team's ...

In Puerto Rico and elsewhere, researchers are attempting to restore coral reefs and make corals more resilient to ocean heat ...

A new theory explains how juvenile crown-of-thorns sea stars (commonly known as starfish) can destabilize coral reefs. The 'degraded reef framework' explains how the loss of live coral, which crown-of ...

There hasn’t been a worse time to be a coral in recent history. Record-breaking sea surface temperatures have persisted globally since March 2023. In that time, more than three-quarters of the ...