As global warming causes temperatures to rise in oceans across the globe, it will be critical to discover novel ways to identify reef corals that are susceptible or tolerant to future heating for ...

Researchers working in one of the most remote volcanic chains on Earth have documented coral gardens and chemosynthetic life ...

Some ancient stony corals were able to survive extreme environmental changes, which suggests that some modern species could also possess some resilience to the effects of climate change, according to ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights into how the animals may fare in the future Jack Tamisiea A colony of ...

Coral reef ecosystems, widely seen as a climate change bellwether, are more complex than previously understood. A new ...

Corals are holobionts, a complex consortium composed of the cnidarian host and its associated microbiome 1. The corals’ association with dinoflagellates of the family Symbiodiniaceae provides ...

Corals, the foundation of ocean biodiversity, are threatened by climate change. But new research suggests that these organisms might be more resilient than previously thought. In a study published ...

A coral outcrop on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. A new project led by UC Santa Barbara, including UC Davis biologist Rachael Bay, will study how coral can resist and repair itself from damage caused ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

Researchers uncovered a colossal black coral, estimated to be 400 years old, in Fiordland, New Zealand. Dive in to learn ...