Andrea Mustain
Source: MSNBC
September 7, 2010

A voyage to the outer edges of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has brought back pieces of an ancient, fossilized ancestor to the vast, living ecosystem.

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Source: All Headline News
September 6, 2010

Manila, Philippines - Scientists from two Philippine universities are alarmed over the bleaching of corals in the country's seabed because of a two-degree rise in Philippine waters in 2009. The University of the Philippines and De La Salle University have received...

Maria Hatzakis
Source: ABC News Australia
September 6, 2010

Scientists are hoping a new study will help predict how rising levels of carbon dioxide will affect the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland.

University of Queensland researchers want to get a better understanding of how various species of coral, algae...

Leila Fujimori
Source: The Honolulu Star Advertiser
September 2, 2010

Native sea urchins—cows of the sea—and an underwater vacuuming system dubbed the "Super Sucker" might be the answer to saving Hawaii's coral reefs from alien algae, which smother them.

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Source: ScienceDaily
August 31, 2010

Coral reefs are sensitive to climate change and track sea level. New observations show that an extensive coral reef existed in the southern Pacific Ocean thousands of years ago. Woodroffe et al. used multi-beam sonar, coring, and dating to examine a relict reef...