Beneath the waters off Egypt’s Red Sea coast a kaleidoscopic ecosystem teems with life that could become the world’s “last coral refuge” as global heating eradicates reefs elsewhere, researchers say.

A groundbreaking study has revealed the extensive mapping of over 64,000 square miles of heat-resistant coral reefs globally, ...

Coral reefs of the Red Sea are among the most thermally tolerant ecosystems globally, thriving under high temperatures and salinity that challenge most marine organisms. Spatial and temporal dynamics ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights into how the animals may fare in the future Jack Tamisiea A colony of ...

A new study recently released found more than half the world's coral reefs are bleached because of ocean warming. Data from more than 15,000 reefs globally analyzed by a team of scientists over a ...

Coral reefs appear to run a daily timetable for microscopic life in nearby waters. Scientists found that microbial populations above reefs rise and fall over the course of a single day, shaped by ...