Stanford researchers confirmed that contact with healthy coral can revive bleached coral in as little as eight weeks.

Corals that turn ghost-white from heat stress are usually written off. They’re starving, stripped of the algae that keep them fed, and if they survive at all, recovery can drag on for months or even ...

El Niño poses a renewed threat.

Scientists have discovered that severely bleached corals can make a remarkable comeback simply by touching healthy, genetically identical corals. In laboratory experiments, dying corals regained their ...

Victoria Glynn’s illustrations show the complex relationships between the coral animal, and the algae and bacteria that live with the coral. Taken together, this is called the coral holobiont. To ...

A new Kickstarter campaign hopes to fund autonomous underwater robots that will repair dying coral reefs. Head underwater at the Great Barrier Reef with Google Maps, and you’ll notice something deeply ...

A coral that has turned ghost white may look like it’s close to dying. In a California laboratory, bleached corals went back to full color in as little as four weeks after touching a healthy piece of ...

The word “extinct” still shocks the senses when applied to species that play such vital roles in our ecological and economic landscape. So when NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

When Victoria Glynn came to Panama to study the effects of extreme ocean temperatures on coral reefs at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) as a pre-doctoral fellow in professor Rowan ...