Houston-based staff photographer David J. Phillip scuba dives while photographing divers planting coral on a reef in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Feb. 12, 2019. – AP Photo / David Goldman Teamwork between 10 ...

The world's corals and coral reef ecosystems are in crisis. In just a few decades, scientists warn, these “rainforests of the sea” and all their rich biodiversity could disappear completely. While ...

Coral bleaching is a global epidemic that reduces vibrant and thriving reefs to rubble. At the current rate of loss, scientists predict that we will lose nearly all of the world’s coral in ...

Over the course of four years, Miami native Michael Zimmer spent dozens of hours underwater filming a team of scientists as ...

Those polyps clone themselves over and over again, eventually forming larger coral colonies that build reefs. That’s how typical reef-building corals, like the iconic elkhorn and staghorn ...

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels ...