Coral reefs are bleaching, dying and becoming sick. Here’s how it's happening and what scientists are doing about it.

Coral reefs are essential to the health of oceans, the food supply and to protecting the coast from storms. But as climate change pushes ocean temperatures higher, reefs are dying and bleaching events ...

As ocean temperatures rise as a result of climate change, coral reef ecosystems face a high risk of extinction, according to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Over 50% of corals have been lost ...

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Coral reefs, once thriving underwater cities teeming with life, now face an unprecedented crisis. Scientists have declared that coral reefs have become the first major environmental system on Earth to ...

Researchers compared DNA from corals and their symbiotic organisms from two sites along the Pacific coast of Panama to better understand how the different members of the coral holobiont influence ...

In a lab at the University of Miami, there are tanks of knobby, tan-colored corals from Florida, Honduras and the Cayman Islands. They've been drafted into a sort of coral Olympics, as scientists look ...

The word “extinct” still shocks the senses when applied to species that play such vital roles in our ecological and economic landscape. So when NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Floridians are not used to hearing the word “extinct” applied to species that play significant roles in the state’s ecological and economic landscape. So last week, when researchers with the National ...

Real-time tools, visuals, and other resources to quantify the role of climate change in weather events. Alerts We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable ...

Floridians are not used to hearing the word "extinct" applied to species that play significant roles in the state's ecological and economic landscape. So last week, when researchers with the National ...