coral reefs

Not only did many corals die in recent years, but some were actually killed by the hotter temperatures themselves, rather than bleaching.

Researchers exposed a coral reef to carbonated water to study the effects of ocean acidification.

A project aims to preserve samples of the climate change–vulnerable animals for future restoration.

Mary Hagedorn is racing to save Earth’s coral reefs by developing techniques for freezing the colonial animals’ gametes.

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Researchers have undertaken a comprehensive study on the status of giant clams across the world. 

New research suggests that plastic might just “taste good” to hard corals.

True to its name, the corrugated coral's (Pavona varians) skeleton forms intricate patterns of alternating ridges and furrows.

Certain corals in the Gulf of Mexico were devastated by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill’s reverberating destruction.

The most destructive global coral bleaching event on record shows signs of remission in the Indian Ocean. 

Scientists surveyed coral colonies in Hawaii for disease after a mystery pathogen caused tissue from the common rice coral (Montipora capitata) to degenerate.   

Nearly half of the corals in a nature preserve off Oahu bleached in recent years, according to a study.

Stylophora pistillata, a reef coral in the Northern Red Sea, thrived in simulated global-warming conditions.

Once again, climate change is killing off masses of coral in Australia’s expansive reef system.

Algae-grazing sea urchins the size of a ping-pong ball, such as Echinometra viridis, could help reduce algal overgrowth in degraded coral reefs. 

Inshore corals thrive in a chaotic ecosystem thanks to dynamic gene-expression regulation, which may help the marine invertebrates better adapt to rising sea surface temperatures.

High-resolution seafloor imaging revealed a much larger network of reef-like structures off the Australian coast than previously thought.

Marine pathogens flourish in oceans that are warmer and more acidic.

As technology takes science deeper into the world’s oceans, researchers are discovering reef systems far from warm, shallow tropical waters.