Discovery of Centuries-Old Black Coral in New Zealand: A Marine Marvel

Black coral, scientifically known as Antipathella fiordensis, is vital for marine ecosystems. Despite its name, the coral appears white because only its skeleton is black. Large corals like the one ...
Edhat

Long-Running SLO Aquarium and Reptile Shop to Close After 21 Years

A long-running aquarium and reptile shop in San Luis Obispo is preparing to close after more than two decades in business. Tropics Aquarium Professionals announced in early December that it will ...
The New York Times

Heat Has Essentially Wiped Out 2 Key Coral Species on Florida Reefs

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem. By Catrin Einhorn After a searing ocean ...
CNN

Critical Florida corals now ‘functionally extinct’ due to off-the-charts ocean temperatures

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 ...
The Guardian

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns Sign up for climate ...
New Scientist

Coral reefs are at a tipping point after surging global temperatures

A recent surge in ocean temperatures has caused the widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world, officially triggering the first climate tipping point for one of Earth’s ...
The Hindu

Philippines pioneers coral larvae cryobank to protect threatened reefs

Known as the “Amazon of the seas”, the Coral Triangle is a 5.7 million sq. km expanse across the tropical waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, and ...
Miami Herald

Here’s why Florida’s corals bleaching crisis matters for us on the mainland, too.

In 2023, a University of Miami Rosenstiel School scientist collects healthy coral off Key Biscayne as part of an research effort to better understand the heat tolerance of certain coral species and ...
Los Angeles Times

Great Barrier Reef records largest annual coral loss in 39 years

MELBOURNE, Australia — The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. But due ...
Phys.org

World's soft coral diversity retains signature of an ancient, vanished sea

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...
The Conversation

The great coral reef relocation

This article was first published in The Conversation’s Imagine email newsletter. Sign up to receive a weekly roundup of the academic research on climate action. Underwater cities. Rainforests of the ...