I went from making dive spots a key requirement for any travel destination, to diving only once in a decade. After all, it wouldn’t be easy to find someone to watch my son and daughter for longer stretches of time while my husband and I were off playing Jacques Cousteau and Sylvia Earle.

A jaw-dropping new report on the current coral bleaching event that dates back to 2023 has found that the vast majority of reefs worldwide have been affected. The new findings revealed that 84% of all coral reefs have been impacted by the bleaching event.

Coral reef biologists are often asked the same question again and again: "When my kids grow up, will there still be coral reefs?" "That's a question I ask myself," says Christopher Cornwall, a research fellow at Victoria University of Wellington in New ...

Coral reefs are both beautiful and utterly vital to the ocean ecosystem and the local environment. They provide homes, food and breeding sites for millions of marine plants and animals, including the fish we eat. They offer important resources we've used ...

A new theory explains how juvenile crown-of-thorns sea stars (commonly known as starfish) can destabilize coral reefs. The 'degraded reef framework' explains how the loss of live coral, which crown-of-thorns starfish feed off, paradoxically benefits ...

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Coral reefs worldwide are in major trouble. Their numbers have dwindled dramatically over time and today, they’re facing yet another mass bleaching event. But research has offered hope that human intervention can help restore these crucial ecosystems.

These maps show where coral reef restoration along the coasts of Florida and Puerto Rico would protect against more than $391 million in total damage to property and lost economic activity annually. (Credit: UC Santa Cruz, J. Kendall-Bar) A new study co ...