The arrival of a potentially powerful El Niño weather system this year could devastate coral reefs around the world already weakened by back-to-back rounds of bleaching, scientists warn.

Coral reefs may be more connected than scientists thought, with coral larvae drifting vast distances to spread genetic ...

The offspring of a common coral branching species set up a new home up to 100 kilometers or more from their parents in one of ...

Walk into SeaWorld Florida’s Coral Rescue Center, and the first thing you notice is the light - a deep, oceanic blue that ...

Birds of a feather may flock together, but when it comes to corals, sometimes it helps to mix things up. ByKatherine J. Wu Monday, January 7, 2019 NOVA NextNOVA Next Even though corals occupy less ...

The world’s most famous coral reefs are all found in warm, shallow, coastal environments. But do corals live outside of these tropical vacation destinations? As a matter of fact, yes! Corals also live ...

Earth belonged to the corals first. And over hundreds of millions of years, they proved themselves remarkably good at adapting to each new version of the planet. As other groups of organisms dropped ...

Corals are finding refuge within the red mangroves at Hurricane Hole, a mangrove habitat in the US Virgin Islands, from threats such as warming ocean temperatures, solar radiation and increased ocean ...

You might be used to seeing corals planted in one spot. That’s because most of them permanently attach themselves to an area on a reef and stay there indefinitely. But not all coral species want to be ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Scientists are one step closer to understanding why some corals can weather climate change better than others, and the secret could be in a specific protein that produces a natural sunscreen.