A record 2023 heat wave all but eradicated two species of coral that historically served as the backbone of Florida's reefs, researchers said in a new report.

In 2023, a record-setting marine heat wave triggered the ninth mass coral bleaching event on Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR). We examined spatial patterns of heat exposure along the ~560-kilometer length o...

The most recent common ancestor of the stony coral Scleractinia dates to about 460 million years ago and was probably a solitary, heterotrophic and free-living organism.

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Regulatory action could facilitate cross-border efforts to retain ecosystem function

Environment Minister Matthew Swinbourn raised the issue in parliament, stating the scale and duration of a marine heatwave had led to mass bleaching.

The devastating 2023 heatwave is the latest in a series of disasters that has decimated the Florida population of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) to a critically low level, pushing this species to a ...

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The microbial world is diverse and critically important to understanding evolution and global ecology, but we lack teaching and communications resources. This Essay provides a series of technical diag...