As Queenslanders waited for Cyclone Alfred to make landfall, its meander along the coastline brought relief to heat-stricken corals. After widespread coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef in the ...

Coral-feeding butterflyfishes comprise a diverse family of reef inhabitants whose survival and interactions are tightly linked to the health and composition of scleractinian corals. Many species ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mass coral bleaching occurs when unusually warm ocean temperatures disrupt the partnership between corals and the microscopic algae that supply ...

Coral reefs around the world are losing their color at an unprecedented scale as a result of rising sea temperatures, federal marine scientists announced this week, with 84 percent of reefs exposed to ...