Rows of tanks filled with liquid nitrogen sit in temperature-controlled chambers at Sydney's Taronga zoo, cradling parts of ...

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

World Reef Awareness Day 2025 highlights the coral reef crisis and the urgent need for global conservation action.

As warmer waters and ocean acidification reduce coral formation, the seas will take up more carbon dioxide – an effect that ...

Australia’s biggest natural wonder is a huge draw for tourists and fish alike. Here’s everything you need to know about the ...

Australia’s Ningaloo Reef is sick, like many coral reefs around the world. And scientists warn reef restoration projects are no substitute for climate action.

These corals were impacted by anomalously low tides. The reef, shown on the same day, is illuminated with ultraviolet light. Living tissue appears bright green while the dead tissue is a pale yellow.

Sought-after pieces of coral are sold all around the world, including at rave-like trade shows known as "frag swaps". The ...

Credit: Amy Green/Inside Climate News “You don ... Carysfort Reef and Horseshoe Reef. Elkhorn corals similarly raised in offshore nurseries and applied to the reefs also were devastated ...

Just a few meters beneath the clear, blue waters of Okinawa, reef-building corals known as Scleractinia have quietly lived ...

“Bleaching becomes more severe if either the heat stress episodes are more intense or if they last for a longer time,” Joerg Wiedenmann, a marine biologist who heads the Coral Reef Laboratory ...