Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coral reefs: bright, colorful and teeming with sea creatures who call them home. They might just be among the most beautiful and ...

As ocean temperatures rise as a result of climate change, coral reef ecosystems face a high risk of extinction, according to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Over 50% of corals have been lost ...

In the northern and central regions of the Great Barrier Reef, scientists were stunned to discover the incredible damage the corals had suffered while doing a survey of the reef from Cairns to Cape ...

In the waters off of the Jamaican coast, a team of artists and scientists are piping in some underwater ambiance for the ...

Nearly a third of Taiwan’s corals are dying from bleaching caused by warming oceans in an alarming phenomenon that poses a severe threat to the island’s delicate underwater ecosystem, conservationists ...

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 ...

The word “extinct” still shocks the senses when applied to species that play such vital roles in our ecological and economic landscape. So when NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

In April 2019, a marine heat wave struck a coral reef on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia, killing much of the coral and the beneficial algae that colonized it. This "bleaching" event reduced ...

MIAMI — Earth just reached its first catastrophic climate tipping point. Coral reefs around the world are facing widespread dieback. “Unless we take radical steps, I fear that we’re going to see the ...