By growing mountainous star corals in the lab and outplanting them to dying reefs, we were able to grow sexually mature corals that could help reef recovery.

Novel technologies establish a new paradigm for global coral reef restoration, with in situ spawning of mature, environmentally resilient corals in five years instead of decades.

Our novel technique involves planting several small fragments of slow-growing corals onto dead coral heads. The fragments eventually fuse, forming a large colony in a fraction of the time that it takes wild corals to build reefs.

Some corals can adjust to a range of temperatures, but this ability may be limited in a consistently warmer environment.

Bleaching killed 34 percent of the island’s reefs between 2013 and 2017, a study finds.

Runoff and waste may be more harmful to the animals than climate change.

Gates was director of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and a strong advocate for coral conservation.

Both deep and shallow reefs are prone to bleaching, concludes a new study.

Historically thought to be a refuge for coral growing in the shallows, coral reefs from oceanic depths face similar threats, finds a new study.

The reef has bounced back from “death events” in the past, but that doesn’t mean it will be resilient over the next few decades.

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.

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

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

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.

Aerial survey results reveal severe coral bleaching across much of the massive reef system.

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.

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