It usually kills corals within weeks or months of becoming infected. [Related: Caribbean coral is getting sick and dying. A probiotic could help.] Antibiotics like amoxicillin are the most common ...

Scientists said on Thursday they found what is believed to be the world's largest coral, which has been growing undisturbed ...

On our first dive we descended into a large stand of elkhorn coral, a critically endangered species diminished throughout the Caribbean. We found ourselves in a dense thicket, amazed as we watched ...

Coral reefs are already severely endangered by climate change and environmental pollution. "Since the 1950s, we have already ...

Almost half of all warm-water species of coral are threatened with extinction -- and climate change is the chief culprit, a ...

This has spread coral bleaching to even more areas, including a current, expanding marine heat wave in the eastern Caribbean and western North Atlantic Ocean. The intrigue: According to Manzello ...

Forty-four per cent of reef-building coral species globally are at risk of extinction, the IUCN Red List of Threatened ...

Reginald is part of a team of ardent reef protectors in the Turks and Caicos Islands which, in 2019, became the seventh Caribbean country confirmed as being affected by stony coral tissue loss ...

Armed with scrub brushes, young scuba divers took to the waters of Florida’s Alligator Reef in late July to try to help corals struggling to survive 2023’s extraordinary marine heat wave. They ...

Our analysis indicates that after the Eocene extensive development of coral reefs in the Caribbean was limited to two intervals of the Cenozoic: the Late Oligocene and Quaternary. A long period ...