coral reef

The remains of one newly discovered, ancient coral reef, believed to be some millions of years old, have been discovered in an Australian desert plain.

Who Put That There

"...a land that time forgot..."

Scientists Find Remnants of Huge Coral Reef in Middle of Desert

Scientists say the Great Barrier Reef is suffering its six mass bleach event because of heat waves caused by climate change.

Panic Button

More than half is "bleached completely white."

Scientists say World’s Largest Coral Reef is Bleaching Again

A team of researchers in Japan have managed to successfully establish cell lines in a coral, meaning that they were able to culture cells of a coral.

Save the Corals

There might be a way to stop coral bleaching.

Scientists Grow Coral in Lab, in Glimmer of Hope for Dying Reefs

Scientists identified a gene that allows coral to survive hot water, and they want to gene-hack it into reefs to protect against climate change.

Heat Shielding

A gene that gives coral resistance to heat could protect reefs as the planet heats up.

Scientists Want to Gene-Hack Coral Reefs to Survive Climate Change

Scientists discovered a massive new coral reef lurking near Australia's Great Barrier Reef for the first time in over 120 years.

New Reef

Finally, some good news — a massive, just-discovered reef that's taller than the Empire State Building.

Scientists Discover Huge, Unknown Coral Reef

A new study found that fish would flock to dead coral reefs if researchers blasted the sounds of a healthy reef from nearby underwater speakers.

Reefer Madness

"Boosting fish populations in this way could help to kick-start natural recovery processes..."

Fish Rave: Loudspeakers Draw Wildlife to Dead Reefs

Coral Vita is working to build a coral farm on land, which it claims allows it to grow coral at up to 50 times the rate of underwater farms.

Reef Madness

It says it can accelerate the growth rate of some corals by up to 50 times. 

This Startup Is Growing Coral on Land and Transplanting It Into Damaged Reefs

It's threatening the world's third largest reef, so they need to figure this out fast. 

Researchers Don't Know What's Killing Florida's Coral Reef

Plastic pollution is responsible for disease outbreaks threatening the most complex reefs.

An Ocean of Plastic Is Choking the World's Most Precious Coral Reefs

The key difference maybe in effective fishing management

Scientists Find Hope in 'Bright Spots' to Conserve Coral Reefs