Dr. Paul Hardisty has spent years chronicling the Great Barrier Reef—not just its breathtaking beauty, but its battles for ...

The culprit? Mass coral bleaching. As the name suggests, coral bleaching strips reefs of their color, leaving them completely white. It happens when unnaturally warm ocean water causes coral to ...

Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.

For this reason, coral reefs are often referred to as the rainforests ... Algae give corals their striking colours. The algae produce energy by photosynthesis which is why coral is usually found ...

Divers at Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia have recorded footage that looks more like the surface of the Moon than a ...

Witness them feeding, admire their forms and colours ... 10 centimetres a year and the coral develops into various shapes and sizes, depending on the species. Together with coralline algae and other ...

and International Coral Reef Initiative said. Bleaching occurs when stressed coral expels the algae that give them their ...

scientists say Coral reef bleaching across happens when stressed coral expel the algae that are their food source and give them their color. If the bleaching is severe and long-lasting ...

Scientists have found the world’s largest coral near the Pacific’s Solomon Islands, announcing the significant discovery “pulsing with life and colour ... from a coral reef made from ...