NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Florida Aquarium's lead coral scientist Keri O'Neil about getting stone coral to repeatedly reproduce in a lab setting. This could help save global coral populations. For ...

Coral reefs host a quarter of all sea species, but climate change, overfishing, and pollution could drive these ecosystems to extinction within a matter of decades. Marine biologists have been racing ...

I dove off the back of our sailboat into the warm waters of the South Pacific just after sunrise. My husband and 10 year-old son followed, each holding an underwater camera. Together, we kicked over ...

Jenny Mallon receives funding from the Coral Conservation Society. The work described here was completed in partnership with CORALIUM, SECORE International, Ridge to Reefs, Hotel Akumal Caribe and the ...

Valérie Chamberland swims like a dolphin, quickly and fluidly, and for most of the past hour she has been darting through the warm, shallow water off the Caribbean island of Curaçao. Now she is ...

Scientific wisdom says corals reproduce at night. But on reefs around the Indo-Pacific, that might not be the case. By Chloe Glad/Hakai Magazine Published Aug 2, 2023 9:00 PM EDT This article was ...

Plastic pollution is a growing problem in many reef ecosystems, and its effects are not well understood. Most previous research has focused exclusively on adult corals and their interactions with ...

Morgan Pratchett receives funding from Australian government and non-government organisations including the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Fisheries Research and Develoipment Coporation (FRDC) ...

For the first time, scientists have repeatedly coaxed Atlantic pillar coral to reproduce in a lab. It happened at The Florida Aquarium. And scientist Keri O'Neil leads the team there. She joins us now ...