In a lab at the University of Miami, there are tanks of knobby, tan-colored corals from Florida, Honduras and the Cayman Islands. They've been drafted into a sort of coral Olympics, as scientists look ...

Even if you’ve never gone scuba diving or peered into a tropical tank at your local aquarium, you know that coral reefs are the ocean’s art show. They’re all bright, colorful and full of life — right?

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From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Steve Palumbi, Stanford University professor of biology and ...

This summer, it was all over the media. Driven by the climate crisis, the oceans have now also passed a critical point: The absorption of CO 2 is making the oceans increasingly acidic. Subscribe to ...

Marine scientists compiling the most holistic “snapshot” of Thailand’s coral reefs to date have uncovered evidence of a long-suspected reality: Thailand’s coral reefs are losing structural complexity.

Scientists warn that a proposed expansion of Port Everglades could damage corals, including some of the only remaining ...