Most museums stick to the tried and true approach of displaying art, history, or science in ways that feel familiar and safe. They showcase paintings behind velvet ropes, ancient artifacts under glass ...

Young corals can still build skeletons in acidic water, but the altered crystal structure makes the skeletons smaller and ...

Roger Williams University professor Koty Sharp says the northern star coral could offer insights to help protect tropical ...

A group that is pioneering underwater sculpture parks as a way to establish human-made coral reefs has deployed its first ...

South Florida is home to the only barrier reef in the continental United States. But does it matter to people on land that ...

Two years after a record-setting heatwave, scientists have confirmed that two iconic corals that have flourished across Florida’s 560-kilometre-long reef for more than 10,000 years are now ...

Abnormally hot surface water temperatures have created conditions ripe for an unprecedented coral bleaching event. This side-by-side shows the same elkhorn coral in August 2022 before bleaching and in ...

A CU Boulder researchers uses underwater drilling of coral reef samples to look for resiliency amid higher ocean acidity, in a hopeful sign for the environment.

New research reports the functional extinction of Acropora corals from Florida's Coral Reef. Scientists have documented catastrophic mortality of these critically endangered corals following a ...

The first major assessment of coral near busy Port Everglades in a decade has led scientists to a surprising discovery: one of the world’s busiest channels is also home to millions of corals, ...