The researchers used satellite heat-stress data to see how far the impact has gone globally. They predicted that 51% of the world's coral reefs suffered moderate or worse bleaching. 15% were dying or ...

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 ...

By Neelanjana Rai In a quiet laboratory at Phuket Rajabhat University in southern Thailand, Preeyanuch Thongpoo is attempting ...

The findings feed into the target of restoring 4 million corals by 2030, ensuring that rebuilt reefs are seeded with corals capable of surviving the next heatwave, not just the last one ...

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 ...

Earlier, where there were only clusters of fringing corals, now appeared the colorful shoals of fish.

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 ...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — On a boat off the coast of an island near Abu Dhabi, marine scientist Hamad al-Jailani feels the corals, picked from the reef nursery and packed in a box of seawater, ...

The past three summers have been the worst on record for Florida's coral reefs. To try to restore them, scientists are breeding corals that can... Scientists are using corals from other countries to ...