MICHAEL Frank has seen the devastation of Tobago’s coral reefs first-hand over the years.Growing up in Castara, Frank spent hours exploring the island before taking on a role as a ...

A new study has discovered a remarkable resilience in young corals raised through assisted sexual reproduction. This is big ...

Named after John D. Pennekamp, a former newspaper editor for the Miami Herald and noted Everglades conservationist, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park was developed in 1963 as the United States ...

A photo of “Big Momma” in American Samoa, the largest coral before the discovery of the coral in Solomon Islands. Courtesy of National Marine Sanctuaries via Wikimedia Commons Have you ever heard ...

Coral polyps are the individual animals that collectively form a coral colony. Within each polyp lies a central mouth, encircled by tentacles armed with stinging cells. (Photo courtesy Dan Mele) On ...

The largest coral ever recorded has been found by scientists in the southwest Pacific Ocean. The mega coral - which is a collection of many connected, tiny creatures that together form one ...

A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire ...

And under normal conditions ... "They've still got their algae unlike the coral. It seems to take more to get them to bleach. So that's kind of a weird biological mystery." These seemingly ...

Coral bleaching on the northern Great Barrier Reef ... They can recover if sea surface temperatures return to normal quickly enough. Record temperatures were set during this year’s bleaching ...

We still have a lot of Reef to monitor and a full assessment of the impact on coral cover across the Marine Park will be available in mid-2025." Inner and mid-shelf reefs in the Cooktown-Lizard Island ...

The death toll from last summer’s coral bleaching event is starting to emerge, with underwater surveys confirming that more ...

The Australian Institute of Marine Science said surveys of 12 reefs found up to 72 percent coral mortality, thanks to a summer of mass bleaching, two cyclones, and flooding. In one northern ...