Corrales, a recent biological sciences Ph.D. graduate from the University of Rhode Island, and his advisor, Associate ...

OSU coral researcher Alex Vompe off the north shore of Mo'orea (photo by Mackenzie Kawahara). CORVALLIS, Ore. – Some coral species can be resilient to marine heat waves by “remembering” how they lived ...

As global warming causes temperatures to rise in oceans across the globe, it will be critical to discover novel ways to identify reef corals that are susceptible or tolerant to future heating for ...

Collected from the deep waters off Puerto Rico, the species is a member of an enigmatic, and threatened, group of corals Jack Tamisiea The Nancy Foster research vessel explores the deep waters off of ...

A new deep-sea coral species in the tropical western Pacific that resembles a highly recognizable character from Star Wars has been discovered and named by a team of researchers including an expert ...

Some 44% of the world’s warm-water, reef-building coral species are facing risk of extinction, according to the latest update by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This is a significant increase ...

In early June 2023, the coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas were stunning. We were in diving gear, checking up on hundreds of corals we had transplanted as part of our ...

A long-term study investigating the growth of corals in the Caribbean over the past century has shown that even stress-tolerant species of corals are finding it difficult to adapt to increasing ocean ...

Think of it as a seed bank to store the genes of Florida's most imperiled corals until safer times along the state's dying reefs. SeaWorld Orlando's new Coral Rescue Center, unveiled Friday, aims to ...

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Carly D. Kenkel has received funding from NSF, NOAA, The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group, the Mary Gard ...