The mass bleaching that started in February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Most corals are colonial animals - superorganisms comprising lots of smaller organisms - made up of multitudes sea anemone-like coral polyps. In the reef-building "hard corals", the polyps sit in ...

Coral reefs, crucial for marine biodiversity, are suffering immensely from climate change, ocean acidification, pollution, ...

2024 — What species live in this coral reef, and are they healthy? Chemical clues emitted by marine organisms might hold that information. But in underwater environments, invisible compounds ...

Coral reefs consist of hundreds of thousands of coral polyps - marine animal invertebrates with hard calcium carbonate exoskeletons. Different species grow to form a variety of measurements and shapes ...

The urgent fight to protect Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef from disastrous mass coral bleaching events has been given a significant boost, with ...

To save coral reefs from climate change, scientists are proposing an unusual idea: declaring coral protection a human right.

What have global efforts to protect oceans actually achieved? Our study of nearly 2,600 tropical coral reefs around the world ...

Writing for The Conversation, Liam Lachs, Dr Adriana Humanes and Dr James Guest discuss how they bred corals to better ...

The structural complexity of coral reefs creates a vibrant underwater city populated by a diverse assortment of characters. Ironically, this same complexity can impede coral recovery after ...

Coral reefs are like underwater cities, with myriad species forming a thriving ocean metropolis. That complexity, however, ...

Research led by the University of Oxford has found that oceanographic connectivity (the movement and exchange of water ...