Probiotics can be good for human health. Now, new research suggests they might also help protect coral reefs. A bacterial ...

Scientists with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History have discovered that a bacterial probiotic helps slow ...

Probiotics are everywhere, claiming to help us poop, restore gut health, and more. They can also be used to help threatened coral reefs. A bacterial probiotic has helped slow the spread of stony coral ...

The hard version of coral polyps produces limestone that is used to form layer after layer of a rigid coral skeleton. Groups ...

a coral reef ecologist. “The entire Caribbean right now is bleaching. If you picked a random spot on the map in the Caribbean and jumped in the water, you’re going to see bleached corals.” ...

Reefs near the small colonial town of Tela have more than three times the amount of live coral found elsewhere across the Caribbean. Now scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School ...

Scientists with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have discovered that a bacterial probiotic helps slow the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) in already infected ...