The northern and central Great Barrier Reef have recorded their highest amount of coral cover since the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) began monitoring 36 years ago. However ...

Scientists are increasingly arguing that coral-reef restoration is a lost cause — but done right, it can still benefit ecosystems and local communities. Scientists are increasingly arguing that ...

They are implanted with coral fragments and secured to rubble fields. Mr Fisher is impressed at the stars' ability to help accelerate natural resilience after only three years on the reef.

Reef buildup is a slow process, with coral death usually balanced by recruitment. New growth incorporates dead skeletons into the larger reef structure.

By almost every measure, the coral in Tela Bay should be dead. Yet despite decades of pollution, industrial degradation, and heat waves that have decimated other reefs in the region, this reef on ...

Coral reefs might be the poster child of how climate change dismantles ecosystems. Around the world, the color in these underwater marvels is draining away. And while disease or disasters like ship ...

Covering nearly 133,000 square miles (345,000 square kilometers), the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef, home to more than 1,500 species of fish and 411 species of hard corals.

Queensland coral harvesting is big business. Some scientists are calling for a 'rethink' By the Specialist Reporting Team's Angela Heathcote Topic: Oceans and Reefs Fri 9 MayFriday 9 MayFri 9 May ...

Sandy ‘Reef Stars’ help bring life back to coral reefs hurt by dynamite fishing Transplanting coral and using these stakes helped restore degraded coral reefs in Indonesia in only four years.

Researchers have deployed a new type of coral reef restoration technique off the coast of Antigua and Barbuda. The “coral modules,” which are manmade structures with 2,000 living coral ...

While scientists studied a coral reef ecosystem in the South Pacific, rising temperatures led them to believe it was doomed. Then, something miraculous happened.