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These protected areas bring an incredible amount of biodiversity right into the bustling metropolis–including coral reefs.

New research has revealed alarming coral mortality rates of 92% after last year's bleaching event at Lizard Island on ...

NOAA recently reported that the largest coral bleaching event on record is impacting 84% of the world’s reefs, including the ...

Volcanic islands, such as the islands of Hawaii and the Caribbean, are surrounded by coral reefs that encircle an island in a ...

Florida's coral reef has experienced a 90% decline in healthy coral cover since the ... Proposed budget cuts to NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program by the Trump administration threaten ongoing ...

A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Coral in Honduras is working together to transplant crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off Miami's coastline that ...

As many reef passes are found to form near large island river basins, researchers had previously assumed a relationship existed between the two. However, the theory remained unpro ...

Volcanic islands, such as those in Hawaii and the Caribbean, are often fringed by coral reefs – ring-shaped structures that ...

University of Rhode Island oceanographer Jaime Palter speaks out on what she thinks the impacts will be of cuts to federal ...

Our study suggests that reducing emissions at a faster pace, in accordance with the Paris climate agreement, could cut the coral loss by half compared with current policies. That could boost reef ...

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