After 10,000 years, they're now gone. Nearly all of Florida’s critically endangered Acropora coral colonies are now dead, after a record-breaking ocean heat wave in 2023. This marks the species’ ...
New research reports the functional extinction of Acropora corals from Florida's Coral Reef. Scientists have documented catastrophic mortality of these critically endangered corals following a ...
The recent discovery of five new coral species around the Indo-Pacific could have critical implications for management of the Great Barrier Reef and other reefs, according to the scientists behind the ...
The designations come 11 years after the five imperiled species were placed on the Endangered Species List. NOAA has placed new environmental restrictions on more than 58,000 acres of ocean bottom in ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The latest “report card” on Mesoamerica’s coral reefs made clear that 2024’s hottest-ever recorded summer temperatures devastated some of the ...
The heat invading the oceans is a serious threat to corals. But scientists are working to bring an innovative solution to this growing problem. What can corals do to survive? The team from Newcastle ...
Our research group has bred corals able to better survive marine heatwaves. Our work, now published in Nature Communications, shows that it is possible to improve coral heat tolerance even within a ...
Our research group has bred corals able to better survive marine heatwaves. Our work, now published in Nature Communications, shows that it is possible to improve coral heat tolerance even within a ...
Over the years, Cody Clements, a marine ecologist at Georgia Tech, has planted over 10,000 coral fragments across the South Pacific. "You can just break off a branch from a coral, plant it into the ...