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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Florida Aquarium's lead coral scientist Keri O'Neil about getting stone coral to repeatedly reproduce in a lab setting. This could help save global coral populations. For ...

Scientific wisdom says corals reproduce at night. But on reefs around the Indo-Pacific, that might not be the case. By Chloe Glad/Hakai Magazine Published Aug 2, 2023 9:00 PM EDT This article was ...

Bleaching -- a process where high water temperatures or UV light stresses the coral to the point where it loses its symbiotic algal partner that provides the coral with color -- is also affecting the ...

In the heart of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, scientists are on the cutting edge of growing coral. Rising ocean temperatures have caused mass coral bleaching, and experts are racing against the ...

Coral reefs host a quarter of all sea species, but climate change, overfishing, and pollution could drive these ecosystems to extinction within a matter of decades. Marine biologists have been racing ...

Night at the Reef: Incredible Corals will be presented at Maui Ocean Center from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Monday. Guests will be able to visit aquarium exhibits after dark under the light of a new moon with ...

We’re losing our coral reefs. Global warming, fishing, acidification, dumping waste, and reckless tourism all have detrimental impacts on coral and the ecosystems in which they live. Unfortunately, ...