Scientists have successfully spawned a cross-bred coral and plan on planting them just off Biscayne Bay in Miami.

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.

Banner image: A coral reef around Nukuoro Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia, where microbial-based monitoring is undertaken to assess reef health. Image courtesy of Alyson Santoro/WHOI.

A healthy coral reef in American Samoa, left, experiencing coral bleaching due to a severe marine heatwave, center, and eventually dying, right. The Ocean Agency and Ocean Image Bank., CC BY-NC ...

While these reef systems certainly do exist, a new study appearing in Current Biology shatters the long-held notion and belief that coral reefs are oases in marine deserts, a notion that became ...

The task force leading U.S. efforts to preserve and protect coral reef ecosystems recognized the coral reef and fisheries conservation work of three University of Guam Marine Laboratory researchers.

Since the coral programme began in 2011, Taronga’s CryoDiversity Bank has been intruding annually on the Great Barrier Reef’s spawning, when corals send eggs and sperm into the waters for ...

Scientists forecast that at 1.5 Celsius (34.7 Fahrenheit) of warming, some 70% to 90% of the world's coral reefs could disappear—a disastrous prospect for people and the planet.

Canon EMEA is partnering with Nature Seychelles, a leading non-profit organisation in the Western Indian Ocean, and the Coral Spawning Lab (CSL), to lead a first-of-its-kind project designed to ...

HONOLULU (Island News) — This Sunday marks World Oceans Day, a global reminder of just how vital our oceans are—to the planet, to biodiversity, and to future generations. Here in Hawai‘i ...

More than 500 species of coral are found here—three-quarters of all those known. The reefs they have built would cover an area the size of Ireland. The creatures that live in these submarine ...