This year’s hurricane season has ravaged the islands, with several homes completely destroyed, roads washing out and ...

Bleached coral pieces were able to recover when in contact with healthy ones.

Stanford researchers confirmed that contact with healthy coral can revive bleached coral in as little as eight weeks.

Global temperature rise may feel like it's gradual, but the changes it brings can turn out to be sudden, massive, and self-reinforcing. These changes are what scientists call tipping points. When a ...

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 ...

Mombasa, Kenya, 15 October 2026 – A global reassessment of reef-building corals has found that 44% of species are threatened ...

Scientists have discovered that severely bleached corals can make a remarkable comeback simply by touching healthy, genetically identical corals. In laboratory experiments, dying corals regained their ...

Corals that turn ghost-white from heat stress are usually written off. They’re starving, stripped of the algae that keep them fed, and if they survive at all, recovery can drag on for months or even ...

Most kinds of coral spawn once a year. In an enormous multiday event synchronized to specific phases of the moon, they ...