Coral reef decline driven by climate change could cost Hawaiʻi residents between $1.8 billion and $3 billion in lost ...

For years, the outlook for coral reefs has been increasingly bleak. Mass coral bleaching events caused by severe marine heatwaves have fueled repeated warnings that reefs are rapidly on an ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. On the island of Moorea, in French Polynesia, deep green volcanic mountains slope from high peaks down towards the sea. But they don’t stop at the ...

new video loaded: Conservationists Install Artificial Reefs Where Corals Once Stood Miles of coral reef around Pom Pom Island in Malaysia have been ruined by climate change and blast fishing. A ...

In a devastated section of the Coral Triangle in the Pacific Ocean, a conservation group is trying to build an artificial reef. Robin Philippo, the managing director of the Tropical Research and ...

Coral reefs, worth an estimated $9.8 trillion a year to humanity, are in far worse shape than previously realized. A massive international study found that during the 2014–2017 global marine heatwave, ...

Lord Howe Island lies in the middle of the ocean, about 700 kilometres northeast of Sydney. It’s covered in lush forest and fringed by the world’s most southerly coral reef ecosystem. This reef system ...

Climate-driven disturbances such as marine heat waves are rapidly reducing coral cover and degrading reef ecosystems worldwide. Using a mathematical model, a research team led by Subhendu Chakraborty ...

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