Almost half of all warm-water species of coral are threatened with extinction – and climate change is the chief culprit, a ...

Conservation status for warm-water reef-building corals was analysed for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s ...

Almost half of all warm-water species of coral are threatened with extinction ... The IUCN's updated assessment included ...

The corals are found in shallow, warm-water habitats and form the colourful reefs seen in tropical and sub-tropical ocean ...

The NOAA coral ... warm some oceans, which ended in May. Some forecasters are projecting the world could move into a La Niña climate pattern in coming months, which typically brings cooler ocean ...

For coral, it comes down to how hot the water is and “things have just gone crazy haywire with ocean temperatures in the last year,” Manzello said. He said hurricanes bring up cool water from ...

Bleaching happens when coral gets stressed and turns white because the water it lives in is too hot. Coral sustains ocean life, fishing, and creates trillions of dollars of revenue annually.

Historically high ocean temperatures are threatening a colossal coral die-off in the Florida Keys. But scientists are fighting to stop it. Marine researchers expect the record-breaking hot water ...

Armed with scrub brushes, young scuba divers took to the waters of Florida’s Alligator Reef in late July to try to help corals struggling to survive 2023’s extraordinary marine heat wave. They ...

AMAMI, Kagoshima Prefecture--The coral spawning season has started off Amami-Oshima island, releasing a blizzard of slow-drifting pink particles that made the ocean look like a starry sky.