More than 80 percent of the world’s reefs ... coral bleaching. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faced a catastrophic bleaching event in 2024. And reefs in the Persian Gulf, the Caribbean and ...

Without them, the reef would quickly become a lifeless moonscape. One important algal group, benthic (bottom-dwelling) algae, rapidly grows over dead coral and other inert objects, providing a ...

What started as a peaceful dive turned into a mystery. While exploring the vibrant coral reef, our diver stumbled upon an unusual object wedged deep among the coral branches — and pulling it out ...

Beneath the waters off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, a kaleidoscopic ecosystem teems with life. It could become the world’s “last coral refuge” as global heating eradicates reefs elsewhere ...

The researchers at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Jacobs School of Engineering developed the gel, called SNAP ...

From blue to dark purple, the colors show increasing threats of bleaching and coral mortality. Light blue indicates no stress to reefs, level 2 (dark red) indicates a risk of mortality to heat ...

Coral reefs around the world are losing their color at an unprecedented scale as a result of rising sea temperatures, federal marine scientists announced this week, with 84 percent of reefs ...