Coral reef development is governed by the balance between biological carbonate accretion and relative sea-level changes driven by glacial–interglacial cycles, tectonic movements and modern climate ...

Roughly 84% of the world’s coral reef area has now been exposed to heat stress severe enough to trigger mass bleaching, the ...

2023 was a stressful year for Florida’s coral reefs. Sea surface temperature records were shattered for several days, and the unprecedented heat stress led to several bleaching events across Florida’s ...

Coral reef research has focused on the twin evils birthed by record-high greenhouse gas emissions: warming oceans and increasingly acidic seawater. These global threats are caused by seawater ...

In 2023, more than three-quarters of the world’s coral reefs were exposed to ocean temperatures that can cause coral bleaching, researchers with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

These maps show where coral reef restoration along the coasts of Florida and Puerto Rico would protect against more than $391 million in total damage to property and lost economic activity annually.

In marine environments, sponges tend to eat other organisms to get their nutrients. But a study published in Functional ...