Sandra Mendoza Quiroz knows how depressing news about coral reefs are – at least usually. Having worked to restore coral reefs in her native Mexico, she’s seen her efforts decimated over and over ...

Heat-hardy corals off the coast of Broward County escaped a mass bleaching event two years back that devastated much of South Florida’s reef tract. They couldn’t take the heat this summer. Earlier ...

Corals are under threat from warmer oceans. But those that survive could pass on their resilience to the next generation. Florida’s coral reefs finally caught a break this summer after a run of ...

Some species of coral might be able to adapt to a world altered by climate change, at least if countries curb their greenhouse-gas emissions 1. Rising ocean temperatures and ocean acidification are ...

It sounds counterintuitive to say that drinking straws are helping the corals off the coast of Florida but that's the case. The straws are biodegradable and being used in an unconventional way. Reef ...

In 2015, nearly half of Hawai?i's coral reefs were affected by the most severe bleaching event to date. Coral bleaching occurs when warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures prompt corals to expel the ...

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 ...

Heatwave, disease catastrophic combo for hardy coralsMarine scientists say the combination of record heat and infection was “catastrophic” for the One Tree Reef area studied and suggests tropical ...

A hardy coral species that can grow to the size of a small building may be tough, but its sturdy larvae rarely make it across a huge swath of deep water that cuts through the Pacific Ocean, ...

While humans can survive large temperature fluctuations, such species as corals are only comfortable within a 12-degree temperature range. And rising global temperatures appear to be threatening their ...