High-resolution imaging reveals how coral fragments attach to reefs

QUT researchers have uncovered critical biological processes that allow corals to attach to a reef in a finding that could ...
Phys.org

Coral bleaching on Great Barrier Reef reaches 'catastrophic' levels

A team of marine scientists from the University of Sydney has published the first peer-reviewed study documenting the devastating coral bleaching events that occurred on the southern Great Barrier ...
insider.si.edu

Seafloor geomorphology as benthic habitat : GeoHAB atlas of seafloor geomorphic features and benthic habitats / edited by Peter T. Harris, Elaine K. Baker

Outgrowth of the 2007 GeoHab meeting held in Noumea, New Caledonia. Cf. pref. Contents Why map benthic habitats? / Peter T. Harris and Elaine K. Baker -- Habitat mapping and marine management / Elaine ...

Marine heat wave caused key part of Florida's coral reef to become "functionally extinct," report says

A record 2023 heat wave all but eradicated two species of coral that historically served as the backbone of Florida's reefs, ...
Science News

Record-breaking Coral Sea temperatures threaten the Great Barrier Reef

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faces critical danger from back-to-back bouts of extreme ocean heat. Ocean heat in the Coral Sea is at its highest in four centuries, scientists report in the Aug. 8 ...
CNN

Over a year of astonishing ocean heat has given way to the largest coral bleaching on record

The mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world since February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told Reuters this week. A staggering 77% ...
NPR

Scientists are using corals from other countries to save Florida's dying reefs

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 ...

Heat Has Essentially Wiped Out 2 Key Coral Species on Florida Reefs

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any ...
CBS News

Crossbreeding corals from Honduras could help protect Florida's coast. Here's how it was done.

Miami — Marine scientists in Miami are hoping to restore Florida's coral reef by taking coral from Honduras and crossbreeding it. "It's the first time ever in the world that an international cross of ...
NPR

The mother of Colombian corals

SAN ANDRÉS, Colombia — Nearly 50 years after she first put on a wetsuit, Elvira Alvarado still remembers coming upon a coral reef off Colombia's Caribbean coast. "Everything was alive. And it was ...
CNN

Coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaches ‘catastrophic’ levels, study finds

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels, a new study has ...