Still standing but mostly dead: Recovery of dying coral reef in Moorea stalls

In April 2019, a marine heat wave struck a coral reef on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia, killing much of the coral and the beneficial algae that colonized it. This "bleaching" event reduced ...
Sun Sentinel

Our dying coral reefs threaten our future | Editorial

The word “extinct” still shocks the senses when applied to species that play such vital roles in our ecological and economic landscape. So when NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Study Finds 15 'Bright Spots' Where Coral Reefs Aren't Dying As Fast As Expected

This is what passes for good news about coral reefs these days: Around the world, some reefs aren't dying as quickly as scientists thought they would. So what's different about these 15 healthier-than ...
WUWM

Scientists are using corals from other countries to save Florida's dying reefs

In a lab at the University of Miami, there are tanks of knobby, tan-colored corals from Florida, Honduras and the Cayman Islands. They've been drafted into a sort of coral Olympics, as scientists look ...
Mongabay News on MSN

In Thailand, a coral cryobank tries to buy time for dying reefs

By Neelanjana Rai In a quiet laboratory at Phuket Rajabhat University in southern Thailand, Preeyanuch Thongpoo is attempting to freeze time. As a molecular biologist, her work focuses on the ...