New research has mapped more than 64,000 square miles where the crucial habitat seems to be somewhat protected from the impacts of the warming ocean ...

Scientists find that natural ocean cooling can protect coral reefs from heatwaves, but only when climate conditions are right ...

Coral reefs are disappearing at an unprecedented rate as climate change, marine heat waves, pollution and coastal development ...

Scientists have found that about a third of the world's coral reefs are hardier than previously thought, encouraging some people that vulnerable reefs may be able to endure warmer ...

Roughly 84% of the world’s coral reef area has now been exposed to heat stress severe enough to trigger mass bleaching, the ...

An international consortium of scientists and artists, known as the Coral Art-Science Consortium, have joined forces to spark ...

Coral reef decline driven by climate change could cost Hawaiʻi residents between $1.8 billion and $3 billion in lost ...

Scientists have identified nearly 166,000 sq km (64,000 sq miles) of coral reefs that are capable of surviving ​and recovering from climate change, three times more than previously estimated, ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...

China has discovered a globally rare coral reef growth structure-type marine blue hole at Huangyan Dao, marking the first coral reef blue hole explored and verified in the country, according to a ...

BEIJING: China's first coral reef blue hole — a large natural depression on the ocean floor — has been identified in the waters off Huangyan Island in the South China Sea, and it has emerged as a ...