These incredible corals form what may be one of the world’s largest reef systems—and researchers have a plan to restore it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But today, a group of 160 scientists from 23 countries announced that the planet has already reached its first major tipping point ...

In a study, published July 31 in the journal PLOS ONE, marine biologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Arizona State University provide a first-of-its-kind glimpse into ...

Scientists have found that the 2023 marine heat wave caused “functional extinction” of two Acropora reef-building coral species living in the Florida Reef, which stretches from the Dry Tortugas ...

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The ...

The results reveal new patterns in how Pacific societies shaped their built environment after European contact.

According to the authors of a study published in the journal Coral Reefs, fire corals may be undergoing a "silent extinction.

Global temperature rise may feel like it’s gradual, but the changes it brings can turn out to be sudden, massive, and self-reinforcing. These changes are what scientists call tipping points. When a ...