Following a global assessment, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has revealed that 44% of reef-building coral species ...

Coral larvae reduce their metabolism and increase nitrogen uptake to resist bleaching at high temperatures, according to a ...

Worrying finding appears to upend long-held assumption that corals in the area are unusually resistant to rising seawater ...

It’s more than 100 feet long, around 300 years old, made of nearly 1 billion little polyps and visible from space ...

The gigantic standalone coral is about 600 feet in circumference and has grown uninterrupted for three centuries, according ...

Severe Cold-Water Bleaching and Mortality of Deep-Water Reef Observed in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Oct. 11, 2024 — New study documents a severe coral bleaching event occurring in a deep coral ...

However, sustained increases in sea temperatures and large-scale coral bleaching events have left these ecosystems in peril. Bleaching occurs when corals, stressed by warmer waters, expel the algae ...

The mega-coral measures 34 metres by 32 metres – making it larger than a blue whale – and it is thought to be three centuries ...

Like humans, coral reefs rely on nutrients in the environment surrounding them. Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic ...

Coral larvae assimilate more nitrogen and trade it to their algae symbionts for glucose under elevated temperatures ...

Forty-four per cent of reef-building coral species globally are at risk of extinction, the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...

Coral larvae reduce their metabolism and increase nitrogen uptake to resist bleaching in high temperatures, according to a new study.