South Florida is home to the only barrier reef in the continental United States. But does it matter to people on land that ...

Iconic Reefs (M:IR) provided critical context for a new research paper published in Science that reports the functional extinction of Acropora corals from Florida’s coral reef. NOAA field team members ...

The world's coral reefs are in the midst of the fourth and largest global bleaching event in recorded history, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced this week. The grim ...

Amidst the decline of reefs worldwide, UCR scientists have launched a $1.1 million project to uncover how coral regains life-giving algae after suffering from heat stress.

Coral reefs have long been losing their color due to bleaching, but a recent uptick has caused nearly all of the world's reefs to be damaged. A record-breaking amount of marine life fell victim to the ...

Seeing coral reefs can color one’s monochrome view of the ocean forever. In the pink of health — and red, blue, green and ...

The United Nations has issued an urgent call for increased funding to protect coral reefs, which are facing extinction due to the most extensive mass bleaching event recorded. Their data shows 77 ...

Last week, the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), a global partnership and forum of 100-plus governments, NGOs, and other entities working toward the preservation of the world’s coral reefs ...

The mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world since February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) told Reuters this week. A ...

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

Coral reefs around the world are experiencing a mass bleaching event as the climate crisis drives record-breaking ocean heat, two scientific bodies announced Monday - with some experts warning this ...