Florida's deep corals could play a vital role in restoring and replenishing the state's declining shallow reefs.

The structural complexity a coral reef creates a vibrant underwater city. Ironically, it can also impede recovery after ...

Now, according to a paper in the journal Science of the Total Environment, microplastics have even been discovered hidden inside the mineral skeletons of corals. This could explai ...

Sep. 20, 2024 — Researchers have found microplastics less than 300 m in size in coral skeletons. The team developed a new protocol to extract and detect microplastics and applied it to coral ...

Nearly 300 individual corals have been rescued from Florida and are temporarily being housed at the Texas State Aquarium ...

Since the 1970s, coral reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) have experienced catastrophic declines in ...

Nearly 300 endangered corals were flown from Florida to Texas for cutting-edge research at Texas A&M University-Corpus ...

Researchers from Japan and Thailand investigating microplastics in coral have found that all three parts of the coral anatomy ...

At least five African countries are working on what could be the world's first joint "debt-for-nature" swap to raise at least ...

Researchers from Japan and Thailand have found microplastics less than 300 µm in size in coral skeletons. The team developed ...

The most prevalent types of microplastics found were nylon, polyacetylene, and polyethylene terephthalate (PET), accounting ...

Results of the study, published in the journal Heredity and featured on the cover, revealed four distinct genetic lineages of blushing star coral. At the sites sampled, the two main genetic ...