A new synthesis published in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment finds that coral reefs transition to net erosion under all emissions scenarios, even low-to-moderate ones, but that the spread of heat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused ...

A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: In the depths of this Great Lake in Croatia’s Mljet National Park, lies the largest known Mediterranean sod coral reef. It ...

Rising ocean temperatures have been implicated in mass coral bleaching events affecting the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). These events have been increasingly frequent, with major events occurring in 2016, ...

Researchers have found that reef fish from the Arabian Gulf, the world's hottest sea, exhibit a higher tolerance to temperature fluctuations compared to those from more thermally stable coral reefs.

Oceans all over the world are experiencing warmer-than-normal temperatures, but waters off the southern U.S. could be on the brink of an ocean heat wave emergency as temperatures rise to unprecedented ...

The word "tipping point" gets thrown around a lot, but what scientists mean by it is something specific and deeply alarming. A climate-induced tipping point is a level of warming at which key natural ...

Researchers compared DNA from corals and their symbiotic organisms from two sites along the Pacific coast of Panama to better understand how the different members of the coral holobiont influence ...

Climate change is severely impacting coral reefs globally, including Florida's reef, which is vital to the state's economy and provides significant flood protection. Florida's coral reef has ...

The public is invited to a free lecture on coral reefs presented by Yvonne Sawall on Thursday [Feb 26], hosted by the Bermuda ...