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 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 ...

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 ...

PORT VILA, Vanuatu (AP) — When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose like a sunken forest — tall stands of staghorns ...

While coral reefs usually hog the spotlight when it comes to environmental disasters, a much quieter catastrophe is playing ...