Coral reefs form a vital part of the marine ecosystem, playing host to diverse species and supporting multiple industries, ...

Sea temperatures in the Everglades reached 98 degrees as marine heat waves stretch across hundreds of miles, fueling humidity ...

Brain coral is a hard coral, also known as a stony coral or reef builder. They cluster into colonies and ultimately create the foundation for a reef to form, giving soft corals and many other marine ...

Coral is comprised of tiny individual creatures called polyps, which form a connected hardened shell when living en masse in a colony. The average polyp grows to about a quarter of an inch.

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative ...

The standalone structure, formed from a "complex network" of tiny coral polyps, has likely been growing for 300 years or more, the researchers said. At about 111 feet wide and 104 feet long ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore's coral reefs had a muted reproductive season in 2025, not because of any oil spill that occurred in the ...

Ali Rogin (voice-over): If coral reefs die, so could nearly a quarter of all sea life, which feed millions and sustain industries from fishing tourism. But the good news is that corals are ...

Brain corals are a type of hard coral that form massive, rounded colonies, some of which can grow several feet in diameter. They are slow-growing, often taking decades or even centuries to reach ...