Coral reefs, once thriving underwater cities teeming with life, now face an unprecedented crisis. Scientists have declared ...

T he Great Barrier Reef has a chance to survive! For the longest time, scientists believed that the beautiful underwater ...

A new global report warns coral reefs have already reached a climate tipping point, dying faster than they can naturally ...

Crucial for marine life and the global economy, coral reefs are the planet's first major environmental system to cross a ...

Saint Martin’s, Bangladesh’s only coral-rich island, faces severe coral bleaching due to global warming and tourism ...

Known as the mother of Colombian corals, at 70, marine biologist Elvira Alvarado is still diving — and pioneering "coral IVF" ...

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any ...

MIAMI — Earth just reached its first catastrophic climate tipping point. Coral reefs around the world are facing widespread dieback. “Unless we take radical steps, I fear that we’re going to see the ...

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 ...

PORT VILA, Vanuatu (AP) — When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose like a sunken forest — tall stands of staghorns ...