Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Coral in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral ...

Researchers at the University of Miami are hoping that hybrid corals, created by breeding local corals with those that thrive ...

New research has revealed alarming coral mortality rates of 92% after last year's bleaching event at Lizard Island on ...

Researchers studying a coral disease that has devastated reefs across the Caribbean say they’ve come up with a promising ...

Coral Reefs Are Getting Sick, and This Human Medicine Might Help Antibiotics, ... in some regions, like Florida and the US Virgin Islands. Scientists also fear that it will soon spread to the ...

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, ...

Much like the United States and Britain, the USVI and BVI are similar but different in the most nuanced ways. Here are some ...

Coral reefs all over the world are threatened by pollution, ... Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and the bays of Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Israel are especially vulnerable.

ST. JOHN, U.S. Virgin Islands—Thirty-five feet deep in clear turquoise waters, a three-foot-long yellow underwater robot maneuvers over a coral reef at a popular snorkeling site named Tektite ...

Scientists want to help make coral reefs more resilient to climate change . ... according to Marilyn Brandt a coral disease ecologist at the University of the Virgin Islands.

Warming oceans are killing coral reefs at an ... Mooney and his team traveled to the southern coast of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands to study how coral larvae in an unhealthy reef would ...