Researchers will study how ocean currents and river nutrients affect deep coral ecosystems on the West Florida Shelf – one of the Gulf’s largest and least-studied habitats. Funded by the Florida ...

A study led by Associate Professor Kelton McMahon at University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography has found that food webs on tropical reefs are more fragile than we once thought.

Why do people care about coral reefs? Why does their damage cause such concern and outrage? What drives people to go to great ...

Creating a way for tourists and casual oceangoers to flag diseased coral is underway as white syndrome threatens reefs around Hawaiʻi.

In a groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind milestone for coral restoration, scientists from the University of Miami Rosenstiel ...

Climate change has already caused significant declines in coral reef coverage globally and is expected to do much further damage in coming decades. Some scientists have held out hope that tropical ...

Hall Bank is a small, nearshore reef off Fremantle in southwest Australia, located well beyond the typical latitudinal range ...

A prehistoric carbon spike turned oceans deadly and wiped out marine life. Scientists say today’s CO₂ rise could cause the ...

The Future Reefs team at the University of Technology Sydney, led by marine biologist Dr. Emma Camp (pictured), wants to protect the reef by finding “super corals,” species that are naturally ...

The number of owners who are underwater is small but growing, and they have recently been concentrated in pandemic boomtowns such as Austin, Texas, and Cape Coral, Fla.