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.