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 ...

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 ...

A Florida State University ecology and evolutionary biologist has discovered that the reproductive methods of individual coral species play a crucial role in their ability to survive, and even thrive, ...

I dove off the back of our sailboat into the warm waters of the South Pacific just after sunrise. My husband and 10 year-old son followed, each holding an underwater camera. Together, we kicked over ...

A new study reveals corals must be within only a few metres of each other to successfully reproduce, leaving them vulnerable in a warming world. The international research, led by The University of ...

Jenny Mallon receives funding from the Coral Conservation Society. The work described here was completed in partnership with CORALIUM, SECORE International, Ridge to Reefs, Hotel Akumal Caribe and the ...

Valérie Chamberland swims like a dolphin, quickly and fluidly, and for most of the past hour she has been darting through the warm, shallow water off the Caribbean island of Curaçao. Now she is ...

The Florida Aquarium has made a breakthrough that will help save “America’s Great Barrier Reef,” the third largest coral reef in the world. For the first time in world history, the aquarium in Tampa, ...

Morgan Pratchett receives funding from Australian government and non-government organisations including the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Fisheries Research and Develoipment Coporation (FRDC) ...