Besides preserving and growing coral species, the Maui Ocean Center features a Living Reef Exhibit in its large aquarium. Courtesy photo/Maui Ocean Center At one of the largest saltwater aquarium ...

APOLLO BEACH, Fla. — Biologists from The Florida Aquarium are spawning thousands of coral to help rebuild the state's coral reef. Funding from the state's Department of Environmental Protection is ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. — Coral ecosystems throughout the world's oceans are essential to countless water lifeforms, but they're increasingly facing several serious threats. An unlikely helping hand is ...

GALVESTON Biologist Brooke Zurita lowered a turkey baster into a tank’s still water. She squeezed a stinky, chocolate-milk-colored mixture with plankton, algae and fish eggs over a piece of rescued, ...

In a lab at the University of Miami, there are tanks of knobby, tan-colored corals from Florida, Honduras and the Cayman Islands. They've been drafted into a sort of coral Olympics, as scientists look ...

Staghorn corals, often the first to bleach when the weather warms, are nearing extinction in the Caribbean Sea. Corpus Christi researchers flew across the country this week to pick up hundreds of ...