After a devastating marine heat wave hit the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas in 2023, the populations of two essential ...

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 ...

Plastic pollution is a growing problem in many reef ecosystems, and its effects are not well understood. Most previous research has focused exclusively on adult corals and their interactions with ...

Treasure Coast nonprofits that research, protect, restore and advocate for clean water, especially the Indian River Lagoon, need more than holiday cheer to continue their missions. TCPalm's annual ...

Scientists have found that the 2023 marine heat wave caused “functional extinction” of two Acropora reef-building coral species living in the Florida Reef, which stretches from the Dry Tortugas ...

With much of the world’s coral turning a ghostly white, UC Riverside scientists have launched a $1.1 million project to uncover how reefs regain life-giving algae after suffering from heat stress.

Researchers at QUT uncovered how corals reattach to reefs through a three-phase process involving tissue transformation, anchoring, and skeleton formation. Differences among species reveal why some ...

In early June 2023, the coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas were stunning. We were in diving gear, checking up on hundreds of corals we had transplanted as part of our ...

Abnormally hot surface water temperatures have created conditions ripe for an unprecedented coral bleaching event. This side-by-side shows the same elkhorn coral in August 2022 before bleaching and in ...

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 ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land itself. Sea water divides the sunset and a ghost land of corals in New Ireland, ...

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 ...