A new study reveals that more than half of the world's coral reefs are bleached because of ocean warming, with 15% ...

Coral reefs, worth an estimated $9.8 trillion a year to humanity, are in far worse shape than previously realized. A massive ...

Benefits to society from coral reefs, including fisheries, tourism, coastal protection, pharmaceutical discovery and more, ...

The researchers used satellite data. 'Global Bleaching Event' leaves majority of world's reefs on the brink of death: 'The most severe and widespread … on record' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Over half of the world's coral reefs were bleached during a record heatwave from 2014-2017, with a new, more severe event ...

For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

A survey published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications analyzed the wide-reaching extent of “Third Global Coral Bleaching Event,” finding more than two-thirds of the 15,000 coral reefs ...

"Data scientists analyzing satellite imagery and vessel data have found that a massive chunk of coral has been dredged out of ...

Human activity has lessened the resilience of modern coral reefs by restricting the food-fueled energy flow that moves ...

Researchers compared DNA from corals and their symbiotic organisms from two sites along the Pacific coast of Panama to better understand how the different members of the coral holobiont influence ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...

The world's tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive, a major scientific report announced on Monday. It is the first time ...