A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and disease. It could be used to restore dying Caribbean reefs—if scientists can figure out how it survived.

The world’s coral reef ecosystems, which are some of the most biodiverse places on Earth, have faced staggering losses in recent decades due to factors such as climate change and marine pollution.

Jarvis, a remote U.S.-protected island, is suffering an unimaginable 90 percent coral mortality. While this recent bad news for reefs is eye-catching, coral reefs have been in trouble for a long time.

Coral reefs are some of the oldest, most diverse ecosystems on Earth, and among the most valuable. They nurture 25% of all ocean life, protect coasts from storms and add billions of dollars yearly ...

Coral reefs around the world are in big trouble because of warming oceans, habitat degradation, pollution, and diseases. SCTLD is a highly lethal disease in corals that was first spotted in 2014.

Dainty blue fish dart around coral shaped like moose antlers near the Mexican resort of Cancun, but sickly brown spots are appearing where pollution threatens one of the world's largest reefs.

Researchers from Princeton University combed through more than 250,000 geotagged Instagram posts from 2018 to 2021 by tourists visiting Hawaiian reefs and compared them with flyover maps of live ...

Even without local pollution sources, the seafloor contained an average of 1,514 microplastic and microrubber particles per kilogram of sediment. One sample even had more than 6,300 particles.

These are just a few of the challenges we ran up against on our four-year endeavor to ask the the not-so-simple question: “How do three human factors – overfishing, pollution and climate change – ...

Dainty blue fish dart around coral shaped like moose antlers near the Mexican resort of Cancun, but sickly brown spots are appearing where pollution threatens one of the world's largest reefs.