Pillar coral with a threespot damselfish. By USFWS. On Friday NOAA announced that it is delaying protections for pillar coral. The 60-day delay means that the effective date of the pillar coral ...

The agency “offered no reasoned explanation for declining to protect the threatened coral species from their gravest threat, climate change,” a federal judge wrote. A federal judge has ordered ...

The two rounds of departures together represent about 10 percent of NOAA’s roughly 13,000 employees. A spokesman for the agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

NOAA monitors reef health. It also works with innovative restoration strategies, such as breeding strains of coral that resist bleaching, so reefs have a better chance of surviving as the planet ...

Cryopreservation technology preserves genetic coral diversity over decades and even centuries at Mote's Sarasota facility.

NOAA’s work has kept fisheries from collapsing, helped coastal ecosystems survive extreme heat and battled invasive species, ...

Efforts to restore the deep, sunlight ... Over the summer, NOAA crews installed mooring buoys to prevent anchor damage to the seafloor, collected samples coral species, removed invasive lionfish ...