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

This quiet island in the Dutch Caribbean is home to some of the healthiest coral reefs in the world, and the incredible ...

Coral reefs in Honolulu and other coastal areas are undergoing what experts say is the world's worst coral bleaching event.

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.” ...

Probiotics could save the Caribbean's at-risk coral, suggests new research. Probiotics slow the spread of a deadly disease ...

In the past year, mass bleaching has been confirmed in regions including Florida and the wider Caribbean ... Reef Watch program at NOAA added three new alert levels to the coral bleaching alert ...

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 ...

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 ...