Marine scientists tracked coral colonies in a remote area of the Great Barrier Reef and found that corals previously more resilient to bleaching suffered devastating and fatal bleaching during ...

Using this knowledge, the researchers refined an existing idea and constructed small steel frames (reef stars) to which live coral fragments primarily rescued from rubble fields or grown in ...

The study also found that dying colonies can quickly turn from a "reef to rubble" under reoccurring marine heatwave conditions. The authors note that coral skeleton collapse can take months to ...

From March 2013 to September 2015, 11,000 coral spiders were anchored in coral rubble across a 75,000 square-foot stretch of the degraded reef, and scientists surveyed coral growth on the spiders ...

A marine heatwave has caused "catastrophic" damage to the Great Barrier Reef, inflicting health impacts to coral not ...

Some coral species monitored had a mortality rate of 95%, with researchers observing the start of “colony collapse” where the dead skeleton detaches from the reef and turns to rubble.

This also reduced the coral reef to a vast artificial rubble bed and permanently destroyed the ecosystem: the reef could not recover on its own because coral larvae could not safely attach to the ...

Coral has been reduced to rubble in parts of the Great Barrier Reef after a marine heatwave caused "catastrophic" damage off Queensland's coast.