Australian scientists have sequenced the genome of the staghorn coral Acropora millepora, a major component of the Great Barrier Reef and coral reefs worldwide. This is the first animal genome project ...

Entrained circadian rhythms control many biological processes. These cyclical systems are synchronized by environmental signals but continue to free run for a considerable time when the synchronizing ...

The Great Barrier Reef is in trouble. Since 2016, rising ocean water temperatures caused mass bleaching events that have killed off nearly a third of the reef. But a new study in the journal PLOS ...

It’s no secret that warming ocean waters have devastated many of the world’s coral reefs. For instance, a 2016 marine heat wave killed 30 percent of coral in the Great Barrier Reef, a study published ...

This news release is available in Japanese. The reef-building coral, Acropora millepora, can pass its tolerance for heat on to the next generation via its DNA, according to a new study. This discovery ...

A three months old stony coral Acropora millepora. Samuel Nietzer and Mareen Möller will breed corals like these in aquaria under improved conditions.

Birds of a feather may flock together, but when it comes to corals, sometimes it helps to mix things up. ByKatherine J. Wu Monday, January 7, 2019 NOVA NextNOVA Next Even though corals occupy less ...

The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Global ocean temperature rise has bleached and killed coral reefs all over the world, but the Great Barrier Reef has been particularly hard, losing 29 percent of its ...

Corals are under threat from environmental change caused by global warming — which has led to warmer, more acidic oceans — as well as from disease and other stresses. David Miller, a coral biologist ...