Mar. 18, 2025 — The red coral colonies that were transplanted a decade ago on the seabed of the Medes Islands have survived successfully. They are very similar to the original communities and ...

These tiny exoskeletons, replicated by countless coral polyps, serve as the building blocks for massive coral reefs that fringe coastlines around the world. Unfortunately, the survival of ...

Cloud, underwater cameras, GPS, and 4G technologies are breathing life into the degraded coral system off the coast of Mauritius Coral reefs are present in under 1% of the world's oceans, yet they ...

A display of beautiful coral. Image by Toby Hudson - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11137678, via Wikimedia Commons. Welcome ...

Coral reefs are marine structures created by calcifying coral animals and their algal symbionts. Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas ...

Researchers have found that reef fish from the Arabian Gulf, the world's hottest sea, exhibit a higher tolerance to temperature fluctuations compared to those from more thermally stable coral reefs.

Nearly a quarter of all ocean species rely on the reefs. William… Coral reefs across the globe once again endure mass bleaching amid warming oceans, scientists say Coral reef bleaching across ...

At 25 feet deep, the Philippine Coral Reef tank is one of the deepest and largest indoor display of living coral in the world. Under the surface, hundreds of fish mingle with eels, anemones, starfish, ...

KILAUEA — The Spring Break Coral Reef Kids Camp made a big splash this week, combining adventure and education to inspire the next generation of ocean stewards. Reef Guardians Hawaii began its 9 ...

It contains the largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere, stretching nearly 700 miles from the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula down through the Honduran Bay Islands. Dazzling arrays of ...

See where coral in the world's largest coral reef system has been bleached to death. By Lauren E. James This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Western Australia’s Ningaloo has experienced the highest level of heat stress ever recorded, while coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef has been detected from Townsville to Cape York ...