Record-breaking ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching ...

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 ...

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 years, ...

The network trapped and stabilized floating dead coral rubble and transplanted healthy, live coral onto the skeletons. The ...

Without human intervention, those reefs had shown no signs of recovering due to the presence of loose coral rubble that prevents young coral larvae from surviving. The restoration effort has added ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.