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 ...

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 ...

In-water monitoring shows hard coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef remains at similar levels to that recorded in 2022, with small decreases in the Northern, Central and Southern regions ...

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.

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.

Partner Content ‘Reef Builders’ Documentary, Presented by Sheba, to Stream Globally on Prime Video The documentary held its world premiere on April 9 in London to honor coral reef restoration ...

The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in Hawaii, an area popular with snorkelers and divers, is teeming with spiny creatures that threaten to push the coral reef “past the point of recovery ...

Florida's coral reef system is large, stretching 350 miles from the Dry Tortugas off the coast of Key West to Martin County, north of Palm Beach on the Atlantic side of the state. According to the ...