Healthy coral reefs can significantly reduce hurricane damage for coastlines, yet many still face harms, including pollution ...

Coral reefs form a vital part of the marine ecosystem, playing host to diverse species and supporting multiple industries, including fisheries, tourism, and recreation. However, these fragile ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Barrier Reef stretches for 1,429 miles just off Australia's northeastern coast. Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty ...

Beneath the beauty of coral reefs lies a hidden universe of microbes unlike anything scientists expected. Each coral species ...

Reef-building coral may feed more efficiently by using tiny hair-like structures to generate food-carrying conveyer belts in the water running across their surface. Corals that form reefs consist of ...

LONDON, April 15(Reuters) - Huge stretches of coral reef around the world are turning a ghostly white this year amid record warm ocean temperatures. On Monday, the U.S. National Oceanic and ...

I am a marine scientist in Hawaii. My colleagues and I are trying to understand how coral reefs might change in the future, and whether new coral reefs might form at higher latitudes as the tropics ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, but these colorful seascapes are built by tiny jellyfish-like animals called corals. While adult corals build solid structures that ...