Rising ocean temperatures cause marine heat waves, which place stress on living coral animals ... aquaria at BIOS to test the effects of deep cold-water pulses (AU) during thermal stress.

researchers have found a glimmer of hope off the coast of the U.S. – the largest-ever deep-sea coral reef. It's been known since the 1960s that there were massive mounds of cold-water coral off ...

The cold-water species is mainly found in the ocean at 656 to 3,280 feet deep and survives by filter ... "the impacts of human activities on coral communities" and help with "developing solid ...

is mainly made up of stony coral. The species, Desmophyllum pertusum, is mainly found in the ocean at 656 to 3,280 feet deep. At those depths, water is 39 F on average. Sowers said the cold-water ...

By Liz Kimbrough In the twilight depths of the Gulf of Mexico, about as deep down as a football field is long, U.S. Navy ...

The authors of the study fear that, given the severity of bleaching and the associated coral mortality seen at Clipperton, the impact of cold-water bleaching on deep coral reefs is not transient ...

In this image provided by NOAA Ocean Exploration, an alfonsino fish swims above a thicket of Lophelia pertusa coral during a dive on a cold water coral ... coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching ...

The Blake Plateau cold-water coral province is a vast deep-sea reef habitat about 100 miles southeast of Charleston. At an expansive 6.4 million acres, with a coral-dense center of about 1.5 ...

See All Key Ideas A team of international researchers recently discovered sprawling cold-water coral reefs in the deep waters around the Galápagos Islands. They found the corals after identifying ...

Scientists have found the world’s largest-known habitat of deep-sea corals off the Southeast coast and a significant portion lies just 90 miles offshore from Georgia. The nearly continuous ...

Saturday is World Reef Awareness Day, and many of my colleagues and I are calling for President Joe Biden to protect the deep-sea coral ... The pristine cold-water coral formations of the Blake ...