As global warming causes temperatures to rise in oceans across the globe, it will be critical to discover novel ways to identify reef corals that are susceptible or tolerant to future heating for ...

Huaguang Reef, one of the expansive atolls in the Xisha Islands, is completely mature, stretching 31 kilometers from east to west and 12 kilometers from north to south. Positioned as a concealed reef ...

Coral reefs are home to over one million species, earning them the nickname "the rainforests of the sea." However, coral ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights into how the animals may fare in the future Jack Tamisiea A colony of ...

Off the northern coast of the Jamaica, there's a coral reef that's fighting for its life. What's this unusual approach to bringing it back to life?

The reefs scattered throughout the tropics arose only after algae took up full-time residence in coral cells, supplying corals with abundant food and enabling them to build extensive shallow-water ...

Some coral species can be resilient to marine heat waves by 'remembering' how they lived through previous ones, research suggests. Some coral species can be resilient to marine heat waves by ...

Scientists from Argentina and the United States have mapped a cold-water coral reef roughly the size of Vatican City in the ...

A coral outcrop on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. A new project led by UC Santa Barbara, including UC Davis biologist Rachael Bay, will study how coral can resist and repair itself from damage caused ...

On June 1st, the world celebrated World Reef Awareness Day 2025 under the urgent theme: “Bringing Corals Back to Life.” This day highlights the indispensable role coral reefs play in sustaining marine ...