Coral reefs are often called “rainforests of the sea,” and for good reason. Their complex architecture—full of nooks, crannies, and towers—provides shelter and homes for thousands of ...

Postdoctoral researcher Samapti Kundu works with the gel SNAP-X in the Coral Reef Ecophysiology and Engineering Lab at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Credit: Erik Jepsen/UC San ...

Even if the Great Barrier Reef is someday covered in coral once again, its architecture and structure won’t be the same, according to a new study. A third of the planet’s coral reef ecosystems ...

At the Florida Aquarium’s coral breeding lab, it looks like hundreds of knobby, golden-brown pastries. Scientists believe ...

Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean's reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative announced ...

Coral restoration won’t save reefs from global warming, according to a recent study – at least, not the way we’re doing it now. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Helsinki and ...

Brain coral, a slow-growing hard coral, forms important reef habitats in the Gulf and ... to observe a piece of the ocean’s intricate architecture up close. However, since corals are protected ...

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative ...