In Puerto Rico and elsewhere, researchers are attempting to restore coral reefs and make corals more resilient to ocean heat ...

It's been four years since Mike Giallombardo was elected to represent Cape Coral in the Florida House of Representatives. Now ...

Researchers have found microplastics less than 300 m in size in coral skeletons. The team developed a new protocol to extract and detect microplastics and applied it to coral samples from the Gulf of ...

Researchers from Japan and Thailand investigating microplastics in coral have found that all three parts of the coral anatomy ...

Coral reefs are home to roughly a quarter of ... they’d be among the first ecosystems lost to climate change. So in hard-hit places like Florida and Puerto Rico, scientists are experimenting ...

Mote is working with NOAA’s Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and the Nature Conservancy to advance culture methods for hard corals at Mote’s Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef ...

A study found microplastics in all three coral anatomical parts—surface mucus, tissue, and skeleton. The findings suggest ...

The disease — which is likely caused by a bacterium or virus — targets a number of hard, reef-forming coral species. It essentially pulverizes the soft coral tissue, killing centuries-old ...