What is the staghorn coral ... into thickets up to five feet high and more than 30 feet across, staghorn corals produce long, cylindrical branches out of bases anchored to the ocean floor.

Records drawn from coral samples also showed a pronounced recurring pattern ... The western boundary current system in the tropical Pacific Ocean transports water into the equatorial region and ...

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in ...

Close-up of the Porites coral, collected from Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean, showing the hexagonal structures ... Explore both the beautiful and the darker side of tropical coral reefs.

An analysis of the mechanisms behind model-projected changes in ocean temperature gives greater confidence in the pattern of tropical warming ... records from coral skeletons, will help to ...

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative ...