Q&A: The future of corals and what X-rays can tell us

This summer, it was all over the media. Driven by the climate crisis, the oceans have now also passed a critical point: The ...
Yahoo

From glowing corals to vomiting shrimp, animals have used bioluminescence to communicate for millions of years – here’s what scientists still don’t know about it

The bamboo coral _Isidella_ displaying bioluminescence in the Caribbean in 2009. Sönke Johnsen, CC BY-ND Our research focuses on octocorals – soft-bodied corals such as sea fans that have treelike ...
Smithsonian Magazine

To Survive Mass Extinctions, Reef-Building Corals Retreat to the Deep Blue Sea

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...
Earth.com

Acidic oceans are forcing corals to build weaker skeletons

Young corals can still build skeletons in acidic water, but the altered crystal structure makes the skeletons smaller and ...
The Washington Post

Corals Are Animals, Too

You have probably seen or held a piece of coral, either in or out of the ocean. You may even have heard that coral is threatened by global warming and pollution. But most people don't know much more ...
The Economist

Corals are threatened by global warming

It is not news that coral reefs are in hot water. Corals, which are sessile animals related to sea anemones, host within their tissues algae that provide them with both food and their ...