Scientists stunned by scale of destruction after summer of storm surges, cyclones and floods ...

The animals prefer water depths between 15 and 100 feet. Like other corals in the Acropora genus, staghorn corals use tiny, stinging tentacles to snatch and eat small aquatic animals known as ...

Scientists have shared sobering accounts of the Great Barrier Reef, with the damage being labelled a 'crisis'.

All along the Great Barrier Reef countless corals lie dead and dying in pretty turquoise waters, leaving the scientists who ...

A new study shows stony coral tissue loss disease is causing drastic changes in the Caribbean's population of corals, which ...

Lead author Nico Briggs said his study found a 21% decrease in the reproductive output of Acropora millepora despite apparent ...

Scientists predict recent bleaching at Australia's Great Barrier Reef will be the worst on record, but skeptics online ...

And then there's the acid test. Follwing a full-moon night or two each year, immobile stony corals like acropora millepora release egg and sperm bundles simultaneously in an orgy of mass spawn- ing.

Lakshadweep reefs suffer 25% coral cover decline from mass bleaching. Researchers warn of past bleaching impacts and ...

This coral species, known as acropora hemprichii, grows in the shallow reefs of the Maldives in tapered branches which eventually look like a bush or dome as they grow. That piece of coral I ...

Ridd, a signatory of a 2008 letter (archived here) disputing the science on climate change, has previously made similar ...