A colorful coral reef, viewed from just beneath the surface of the ocean. A winding river delta, seen from far up in the sky.

Photo shows New Year's Weather: Dark grey storm clouds over a green forested area, with a rain storm on the horizon.

Prior research has shown that climate change is endangering coral reefs, which in turn endangers the creatures that live on and around them. Coral reefs are in trouble for two reasons: The first ...

Deep underneath the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean lies a dazzling landscape of undulating coral reefs colored by photosynthetic algae, from which corals get their energy. But in the early 1980s ...

Those polyps clone themselves over and over again, eventually forming larger coral colonies that build reefs. That’s how typical reef-building corals, like the iconic elkhorn and staghorn ...

The Reef is the biggest living structure on the planet, roughly the size of Italy or Japan – an area so large that it can be seen from space. Across its vast expanse are 35 catchments connecting a ...

The microbialization of coral reefs predicts that microbial oxygen consumption will cause reef deoxygenation. Here we tested this hypothesis by analyzing reef microbial and primary producer oxygen ...