Iconic Reefs (M:IR) provided critical context for a new research paper published in Science that reports the functional extinction of Acropora corals from Florida’s coral reef. NOAA field team members ...

Florida’s coral reefs provide protection from hurricane storm surges—and experts estimate that losing key species in those ...

Thanks to corals’ deep-sea cousins, even the most extreme environmental changes—global warming or sudden, severe variations ...

Healthy corals, like this one in Puerto Rico, have color. Bleached corals appear white. By Seán Kinane/WMNF News (2015). In early June 2023, the coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys and the Dry ...

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the last of the northern white rhinos. But scientists are only beginning to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) In early June 2023, the coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys and ...

Two corals off the Florida coast are now functionally extinct after a 2023 heatwave, according to new research published in ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN for short, is one of the most powerful wildlife organizations. It ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carly D. Kenkel, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Jenna Dilworth, ...