Thousands of baby corals took a major step this week toward saving Florida's struggling reefs. Why it matters: They offer a ...

The ocean stores a huge amount of carbon, but excessive human emissions are changing its chemistry. It's becoming more acidic — hitting marine ecosystems and causing coral reefs to crumble. Two ...

With another El Niño expected in 2026, only a short time after the last one, many reefs will not have had sufficient time to ...

Coral reefs don’t just shape marine life you can see, they also control the daily rhythms of invisible microbes nearby.

Marine biologists sampling coral reef waters multiple times a day have shown how they shape surrounding marine life.

Learn how coral reefs drive daily changes in ocean microbes — a process that shapes how nutrients and energy move through ...

A new scientific paper reveals that many predictions about the future of coral reefs under climate change may be missing a crucial piece of the puzzle. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

A 2016 astronaut photo of the Bahamas shows a series of luminous, rippling sandbanks partly carved out by a coral reef. The ...

Coral reefs shape the daily rise and fall of nearby microbes, organizing them into rhythms that influence how reef ecosystems ...

Overfished coral reefs are producing far less food than they could. Researchers found that letting reef fish populations ...

Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some coral were present off ...