The announcement comes on the heels of a reassessment of the IUCN's Red List, which keeps tabs on the status of 892 warm-water coral species. In 2008, a third of them were threatened. As of the ...

After 10,000 years, they're now gone. Nearly all of Florida’s critically endangered Acropora coral colonies are now dead, after a record-breaking ocean heat wave in 2023. This marks the species’ ...

Or so the Beatles put it back in the good ole' days, before things got really rough in Neptune's realm. Amid a host of problems for the world's oceans, last week brought a reminder that coral reefs, ...

Two key coral reefs in Florida are “functionally extinct” following the 2023 heatwave, warns a new scientific study.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, more than 1 billion people worldwide "benefit either directly or indirectly from the ecosystem services coral reefs provide." ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature is warning that over 40% of coral species are facing extinction, according to Mongabay. The announcement comes on the heels of a reassessment of the ...