Among other things, coral reefs have an image problem: their beauty is hidden under the waves — and so is their destruction from a rapidly warming climate. That’s why in 2014, College of Charleston ...

In the middle of the Indian Ocean, more than 1.500 km from the nearest continent, lies an untouched, mysterious archipelago – the Chagos Islands. This group of 60 islands is one of the last pristine ...

" These incredible structures are built by tiny animals called polyps that secrete calcium carbonate to form their hard skeletons. They occur in more than 100 countries and territories, and whilst ...

While neighboring wild reefs experienced bleaching rates as high as 80%, Dr. Nazurally's reefs experienced just as much in ...

2026 may be the year when coral reefs around the world finally collapse as human–caused climate change continues to warm the oceans. Over the last 10 years, an estimated 30 to 50 per cent of the world ...

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 ...

Coral reefs may seem like paradise, but they are being degraded by a range of global and local factors, including climate change, poor water quality, and overfishing. New research reveals that ...

Most coral reefs will soon stop growing and may begin to erode—and almost all will do so if global warming hits 2°C, according to a new study in the western Atlantic. An international team, led by ...

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Co-Founder, Conspiracy of Love, and Good is the New Cool. What if you could plant a coral the way you plant a tree—and bring a ...

Tristan Salles receives funding from Australian Research Council. Laurent Husson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...