The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

Coral reefs are famous for supporting colorful marine life, but new research reveals they have shaped something much larger: ...

The living architectures of corals harbor rich biodiversity, but they may also have played, over geological time, a central ...

Coral reefs didn’t merely mirror global change, but helped regulate how fast the climate bounced back from massive surges of ...

On a remote coral reef near Papua New Guinea, endless streams of bubbles rise from cracks in the seabed into the shallow ...

When we think of coral reefs, we picture bright fish, clear water and colourful corals. But reefs have also shaped the planet ...

A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem of reef-building corals. Reefs are made of colonies of thousands of individual organisms called coral polyps which are held together by calcium carbonate. Reefs ...

Coral reefs may seem like paradise, but they are being degraded by a range of global and local factors, including climate ...

The ring-shaped coral islands known as atolls, like this one in the Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean, may trace their formation to sea levels repeatedly rising and falling over hundreds of ...

Jörg Wiedenmann receives funding from Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) (NE/T001364/1). Paul Wilson and Peter Franklin (University of Southampton) and Nick Graham (Lancaster University) ...

New work uses cutting-edge CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing tools to reveal a gene that's critical to stony corals' ability to build their reef architectures. This research could inform coral conservation ...

There might be an upside to the loss of coral reefs. Their decline would mean oceans can absorb up to 5 per cent more carbon dioxide by 2100, researchers estimate, slowing the build up of this ...