Most of the world’s reef-building coral species are now considered endangered and 44% of corals globally are at risk of extinction, spelling trouble for nearly a quarter of the marine life that ...

Beginning Thursday, new rules will go into effect to protect stony coral and live rock in nearshore waters, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources announced Tuesday. The new rules are ...

New research shows rising ocean temperatures may cause corals to lose oxygen and die before bleaching becomes visible during heatwaves.

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Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights into how the animals may fare in the future Jack Tamisiea A colony of ...

Earth belonged to the corals first. And over hundreds of millions of years, they proved themselves remarkably good at adapting to each new version of the planet. As other groups of organisms dropped ...