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It’s rather tricky to reproduce if you’re stuck to the floor – unless you’re a coral. Their spectacular spawning events are a beautiful sight to behold. Once a year, they spill billions of sperm and ...

In the heart of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, scientists are on the cutting edge of growing coral. Rising ocean temperatures have caused mass coral bleaching, and experts are racing against the ...

A new study reveals corals must be within only a few meters of each other to successfully reproduce, leaving them vulnerable in a warming world. A new study reveals corals must be within only a few ...

Beneath a cloak of darkness, illuminated only by glow sticks and red-filtered flashlights, researchers waited underwater off Key Largo hoping to witness one of the rarest events of sex in the sea.

Corals play an essential role in ocean ecosystems, and like many organisms, they are under threat from climate change and other human activities. To better protect coral, it's first necessary to ...

Rising ocean temperatures aren't the only factor stressing ocean corals. Researchers have also found that microplastic pollution in oceans is disrupting coral reproduction, preventing coral ...

It’s a success story: SECORE International‘s concept of Coral Seeding is applied within a training and partner network among 9 Caribbean nations. Coral Seeding takes advantage of the natural ...

A Florida State University ecology and evolutionary biologist has discovered that the reproductive methods of individual coral species play a crucial role in their ability to survive, and even thrive, ...

Smooth flower corals bred and grown to maturity at Mote Marine Laboratory’s International Coral Gene Bank successfully spawned just 22 months after they were produced by corals from the Florida Reef ...

It's 9 p.m. and the corals are still not spawning. Nancy Knowlton and I have been underwater for an hour, diving and snorkeling about 350 feet off the coast of Solarte Island, one of 68 islands and ...

A new study reveals corals must be within only a few metres of each other to successfully reproduce, leaving them vulnerable in a warming world. The international research, led by The University of ...