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The Coral That Heals

A bleached coral, stripped of its color and slowly starving, can come back to life in just seven weeks -- if it is placed in contact with a healthy twin. Researchers at Stanford Un...

This “golden tree” coral was too strange for any known family

A brilliant yellow coral discovered off Costa Rica proved so unusual that scientists had to create an entirely new family to classify it. The meter-tall colonies rise from seafloor...

Coral House / Sidney Quintela Architecture + Urban Planning

Located on Praia do Forte, on the northern coast of Bahia, Casa Coral is a project designed by architect Sidney Quintela that accurately translates the concept of contemporary trop...

New 'Golden Tree' Coral Is So Strange It Needed Its Own Family on The Tree of Life

The newly discovered coral lives in strange conditions that seem inhospitable to life. (ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute/Breedy et al., ZooKeys, 2026)

In 2015, Hawaii rescued fragments of a coral found only in Kaneohe Bay; after its wild colonies...

Marine biologists rescued rare Hawaiian coral fragments from Kaneohe Bay in 2015. These fragments were grown into mature colonies using a land-based nursery method. The grown cor...

The world’s reefs are disappearing. Coral trafficking is booming

ArtReef Rocks was an up-and-coming online shop offering aquarium accessories that made waves during the COVID-19 pandemic, offering hobbyists custom reefs and sculpted landscapes f...

Probiotics prevented coral bleaching during a Red Sea heat wave: Study

As a heat wave settled on the Red Sea in 2022, a patch of corals in a reef 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) off the coast of Saudi Arabia reacted differently than other corals. They’d bee...

I.U.C.N. Red List Classifies Most Shallow Coral Reefs as Critically Endangered

If climate change continues apace, 96 percent of shallow coral reef ecosystems may collapse within 50 years, including in Australia’s Great Barrier reef.

New report shows the world's coral reefs are declining rapidly

There have been four global coral bleaching events recorded since 1998. This is the process in which stressed corals expel microscopic algae, turning completely white.

Hawaii coral study finds reef sounds help larvae settle on coated structures

Healthy Coral Reversed Bleaching in Its Neighbor With Just 1 Week of Contact

(Danny Collins)

Nearly all coral reefs risk collapse in 50 years: IUCN

In the first global assessment of its kind, the world authority on threatened wildlife classified 96 percent of the planet's coral reef systems as "critically endangered" -- its hi...

Corals show El Nino intensifying as planet warms: study

Coral skeleton records stretching back 1,000 years show El Nino episodes are intensifying as the planet warms, carrying major implications for a future under climate change, accord...

Nearly all coral reefs risk collapse in 50 years: IUCN

In the first global assessment of its kind, the world authority on threatened wildlife classified 96 percent of the planet's coral reef systems as "critically endangered" -- its hi...

The underwater trees helping Florida restore its coral reefs

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A coral reef thought dead for 60 years is teeming with life

More than 60 years after surveys suggested a deep coral reef off Benin was probably dead, scientists have found it alive. Cameras revealed healthy-looking coral patches supporting...

Naturschutzkonferenz in Jerewan: Den Korallen und ihren Verbündeten wird es zu warm

Korallen sind wahre Ökosystemingenieure und erschaffen ganze Welten: Die Weltnaturschutzunion warnt nun vor einem Massensterben ganzer Ökosysteme. mehr...

Bleached Coral Rebounded After Touching Healthy Coral, Study Finds

After sick corals were placed in direct contact with healthy ones of the same genetic make-up, they recovered at “incredible” speed, scientists found.

A Touch From Healthy Coral Clones Could Help Revive Bleached Corals in a Matter of Weeks 

Learn more about a promising method for restoring bleached corals and its implications for the future. 

Report: Global coral cover falls 9.5% as reefs struggle to recover

The world's coral reefs are under increasing pressure, with recovery periods between mass bleaching events becoming shorter and coral cover declining, according to a report publish...

Global coral reef coverage risks irreversible decline, new report warns

Coral reefs make up just 1 percent of ocean coverage, but host a quarter of all life in the sea.

Tiny Hairs That Help Corals Breathe May Malfunction in Warming Oceans

Several new studies have uncovered this long overlooked aspect of coral physiology that could be the key to the animals’ fate in a changing climate.

Egypt’s Climate-Resilient ‘Super Corals’ Are Starting to Feel the Heat

Scientists can’t agree why reefs in the Red Sea have long been immune to bleaching. The answer could be the key to saving these tough corals as climate change begins taking its tol...

Off the news: Isles’ 1st coral insurance policy pays out

In case you missed it: Hawaii’s coral reefs are not OK. Physical damage and choking runoff from agriculture and development have taken a toll. And scientists fear extinction-level...