After 10,000 years, they're now gone. Nearly all of Florida’s critically endangered Acropora coral colonies are now dead, after a record-breaking ocean heat wave in 2023. This marks the species’ ...

"The book is complemented by a CD-ROM [Staghorn corals of the world, a key to species of Acropora] containing a LucID-based key to all species of Acropora and a photo library of type specimens from ...

Elkhorn and staghorn corals used to carpet Florida’s reef system, rising like antlers from the seabed — but not anymore. These crucial coral species are now “functionally extinct” in the region after ...

In what seems like excellent news, coral cover in parts of the Great Barrier Reef is at a record high, according to new data from the Australian Institute of Marine Science. But this doesn’t ...

A new study led by researchers at Lancaster University has found that the presence of seabirds on islands adjacent to tropical coral reefs can boost coral growth rates on those reefs by more than ...

Florida’s iconic reef tract has not vanished in its entirety, but its architectural backbone has effectively collapsed. The key reef-building corals that once formed a living storm wall along the ...

Coral reefs make up less than 1% of ocean habitat but are home to at least 25% of marine species. These incredibly biodiverse ...

This story was originally published by Hakai Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At the beginning of 2019, mass bleaching devastated coral reefs around the ...