With another El Niño expected in 2026, only a short time after the last one, many reefs will not have had sufficient time to ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) recently published a paper detailing their observations of a major coral bleaching and mortality event that occurred on the deep reefs of ...

Marine biologists sampling coral reef waters multiple times a day have shown how they shape surrounding marine life.

A new study of deep-sea coral reefs indicates that humans may be having a much more significant impact on them than previously thought. According to a report from the Irish Examiner, researchers from ...

Coral reefs are one of the oldest types of living systems on Earth and are critically important for a number of species and for fisheries and biodiversity of the oceans. Norwegian waters support ...

Coral reefs shape the daily rise and fall of nearby microbes, organizing them into rhythms that influence how reef ecosystems ...

The Blake Plateau cold-water coral province is a vast deep-sea reef habitat about 100 miles southeast of Charleston. At an expansive 6.4 million acres, with a coral-dense center of about 1.5 million ...

Corals searching for food in the cold and dark waters of the deep sea are building higher and higher mountains to get closer to the source of their food. But in doing so, they may find themselves ...

Parasites thought only to infect tropical coral reefs have been discovered in a large variety of creatures in cold marine ecosystems along the Northeast Pacific, according to new research. Parasites ...

WWF welcomes the Irish government’s announcement at a meeting on the North-East Atlantic environment to protect the country’s cold-water coral reefs. Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland – WWF welcomes the ...

Coral reefs are often described as biodiversity hotspots, but new research shows they also act as powerful regulators of the ...