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Dancehall musician Sean Paul used to think of climate change as a distant threat, something he would likely not experience himself. "As a kid growing up in Jamaica, you're always told, you know, climate change is something…

Alongside their natural beauty, coral reefs have an important role to play in the natural world. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, around one quarter of the ocean's fish rely on healthy coral reefs.Reinhard…

You can love something to death. That is one way of thinking about a new Stanford University study that reveals how a common component of many sunscreens worn by coral reef-exploring tourists may hasten the demise of these endangered…

Zooks benefit corals by giving them energy and colour, and in return the coral gives them a home in the coral tissue. Under stress, such as in too-hot water, the algae produce toxins instead of nutrition, and the coral ejects them. Without…

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is suffering widespread and severe coral bleaching due to high ocean temperatures two years after a mass bleaching event, a government agency said on Friday. The report by the Great Barrier Reef Marine…

<!-- -->Severe bleaching took place across 2,300-kilometre (1,243-mile) network of corals. (File)Sydney: The Great Barrier Reef has again been hit with "widespread" bleaching, authorities said Friday, as higher-than-average ocean…

SYDNEY: The Great Barrier Reef has again been hit with "widespread" bleaching, authorities said on Friday (Mar 18), as higher-than-average ocean temperatures off Australia's northeast threaten the already struggling World Heritage site.…

A new study found that seafloor sediments have the potential to transmit a deadly pathogen to local corals and hypothesizes that sediments have played a role in the persistence of a devastating coral disease outbreak throughout Florida and…

Scientists have discovered a pristine, three-kilometre-long reef of giant rose-shaped corals off the coast of Tahiti, in waters of the southern Pacific Ocean thought to be deep enough to protect it from the bleaching effects of the warming…

Vast amounts of energy flow around the ocean as waves, tides and currents, eventually impacting coasts, including coral reefs that provide food, income and coastal protection to more than 500 million people. This water movement is…