Corals play an essential role in ocean ecosystems, and like many organisms, they are under threat from climate change and other human activities. To better protect coral, it's first necessary to ...

Valérie Chamberland swims like a dolphin, quickly and fluidly, and for most of the past hour she has been darting through the warm, shallow water off the Caribbean island of Curaçao. Now she is ...

Plunge into the shallows off the Florida Keys, Hawaiʻi or the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and you are likely to meet a startling sight. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

Life cycle of coral with crown-of-thorns starfish. Beginning with healthy coral, heatwave events induce coral bleaching, causing coral death and algal colonisation. Corals then collapse and create ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Florida Aquarium's lead coral scientist Keri O'Neil about getting stone coral to repeatedly reproduce in a lab setting. This could help save global coral populations. For ...