As baby corals float in the currents, they can expand their species’ range. But can they get to climate refuges fast enough ...

When coral species vanish, their absence can imperil surviving corals. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 25, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 01 / 190123153519.htm ...

The threats to reef-building corals were last assessed for the IUCN Red List in 2008, and at that time one-third were found to be threatened. During the assessment, coral species around the world ...

These corals—species with rigid skeletons, such as elkhorn and brain corals—are the architects of these ecosystems, providing the foundations for coral reef communities. Coral reefs perform ...

Coral reefs provide many benefits for ecosystems — supporting 25% of all marine species and acting as hotbeds for biodiversity — as well as the communities in which they are located. The reefs protect ...

(Mackenzie Kawahara) The corals were also hit by several minor and severe heat waves between 2016 and 2020. "We observed that some species of coral seem to remember exposure to past marine heat ...

Corals are being hit so hard by global warming that the only way to save reef ecosystems may be to replace native species with more heat-tolerant ones from elsewhere in the world. That is the view ...

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Collected from the deep waters off Puerto Rico, the species is a member of an enigmatic, and threatened, group of corals Jack Tamisiea The Nancy Foster research vessel explores the deep waters off ...

Scientists from the Department of Biological Science at Florida State University have described and named a new species of coral in the waters of French Polynesia. Postdoctoral researcher Erika ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (KHON2) — Navy officials are asking the public not to dump their coral in the ocean after several species of invasive coral were found in waters around Pearl Harbor.

Using a remote-controlled submarine, my colleagues and I discovered five new species of black corals living as deep as 2,500 feet (760 meters) below the surface in the Great Barrier Reef and Coral ...