Our Changing Seas III, 2014 Courtney Mattison. Photo by Arthur Evans You’ve heard that coral reefs are in big trouble and might even die off by the end of the century. But if you spend most of ...

The collapse of reefs threatens, in particular, the estimated one billion people who rely on them for food, tourism income, and protection from coastal erosion and storms. But if protected and managed ...

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Rows of tanks filled with liquid nitrogen sit in temperature-controlled chambers at Sydney's Taronga zoo, cradling parts of the Great Barrier Reef's diverse and magnificent corals frozen in time.

Scientists forecast that at 1.5 Celsius (34.7 Fahrenheit) of warming, some 70 to 90 percent of the world's coral reefs could disappear -- a disastrous prospect for people and the planet.

For two decades, Theresa Fyffe was a medical researcher. Now, she’s focused on a different kind of medicine: Coral triage. Fyffe is the executive director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, an ...

Simulation results indicate that reduced coral reef calcification due to ocean acidification could increase the ocean's carbon uptake by 1–5% by 2100 and up to 13% by 2300.

Research from the Philippines demonstrated that artificial reefs with complete fishing bans showed 4-8 times greater biomass of threatened reef fish compared to unprotected artificial reefs. Effective ...

Clownfish in Papua New Guinea are temporarily shrinking in response to heat stress caused by climate change, a new study found. Here's how that might help them deal with warmer water temps.

The collapse of reefs threatens in particular the estimated 1 billion people who rely on them for food, tourism income and protection from coastal erosion and storms. But if protected and managed ...

But today’s reefs are already struggling, with UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee recently expressing “utmost concern” about the state of the Great Barrier Reef in particular.

The fate of coral reefs has been written with a degree of certainty rare in climate science: at 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, most are expected to die.