Climate change and greenhouse gas emissions have been highly political issues since the terms went mainstream nearly three ...

LONDON(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 Atmospheric ...

Coral reefs, once thriving underwater cities teeming with life, now face an unprecedented crisis. Scientists have declared ...

The past three summers have been the worst on record for Florida's coral reefs. To try to restore them, scientists are ...

In a grim study, a team of nearly 50 researchers concludes that extreme ocean heat killed off two crucial coral species that ...

QUT researchers have uncovered critical biological processes that allow corals to attach to a reef in a finding that could ...

Ocean temperatures have been unusually hot, which turns the corals a ghostly white. Coral bleaching is expected to get worse as the climate keeps getting hotter. Scientists aim to help corals survive.

Even if you’ve never gone scuba diving or peered into a tropical tank at your local aquarium, you know that coral reefs are the ocean’s art show. They’re all bright, colorful and full of life — right?

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any ...

Florida’s primary reef-building corals have been declared ‘functionally extinct’ — prompting a shift in conservation ...