In a race against time, scientists are exploring new ways to restore natural systems. Alongside traditional methods such as planting trees, reducing pollution and reintroducing native species, a ...

Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life, with about one-quarter of all ocean species depending on reefs for food and shelter at some point in their lifecycle.

Coral reefs are both beautiful and utterly vital to the ocean ecosystem and the local environment. They provide homes, food and breeding sites for millions of marine plants and animals, including the ...

APOLLO BEACH, Fla. — For the first time, coral from outside of Florida was allowed to be planted in state waters. This happened in early July 2025 with help from the University of Miami, Tela Marine ...

A program in the United Arab Emirates is growing corals native to the Persian Gulf that have evolved to withstand high temperatures. By Jenny Gross Reporting from Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United ...

The Florida Aquarium is part of an initiative to restore 25% of Florida's Coral Reef. The aquarium's Coral Conservation and ...

Elkhorn coral being grown in the Dry Tortugas since 2018 in an effort to save the population died during the August 2023 heat wave. The blistering summer heat wave that hammered South Florida’s coral ...

A city under the sea -- What is a coral? -- Reef builders -- How coral reefs form -- Where coral reefs grow -- Kinds of coral reefs -- Plants and coral reefs -- Coral reef feeders -- Coral reef ...

BAYAHIBE, Dominican Republic (AP) — Oxygen tank strapped to his back, Michael del Rosario moves his fins delicately as he glides along an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, ...

MIAMI — Off the northern coast of Honduras, thick stands of endangered elkhorn coral have mysteriously defied warming oceans fueled by climate change to blanket the reef with healthy, cocoa-brown ...

This story was co-published with Grist as part of their Proof of Concept video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most surprising research. While the Gulf of ...

Liam Lachs receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council's ONE Planet Doctoral Training Programme. Unprecedented ocean temperatures are triggering mass coral bleaching events across ...