Marine scientists highlights the complex interplay between heat stress, disease onset and coral mortality. They found that 66 percent of the colonies were bleached by February 2024 and 80 per cent by ...

To help rare elkhorn corals survive in Florida waters, coral researchers should place them in shallow ocean locations with fast currents, scientists explained in a recent publication.

To help rare elkhorn corals survive in Florida waters, coral researchers should place them in shallow ocean locations with ...

The animals prefer water depths between 15 and 100 feet. Like other corals in the Acropora genus, staghorn corals use tiny, stinging tentacles to snatch and eat small aquatic animals known as ...

The coral variant Acropora squarrosa ... In contrast to Tokyo Bay, colonies in some southern waters are at risk of dying out amid surging ocean temperatures. Exposed to warmer water, corals ...

Many colonies of table-shaped corals or branch-shaped Acropora corals were found to have perished. The bleaching was likely caused by high ocean temperatures. The average temperature was 30.2 ...

A team of marine scientists from the University of Sydney has published the first peer-reviewed study documenting the ...

The new research, which was published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters, paints a worrying picture for the Great Barrier Reef.

A team of marine scientists from the University of Sydney has published the first peer-reviewed study documenting the devastating coral bleaching ...