The Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance is safeguarding Florida coral as researchers search for a cure for stony coral tissue loss disease.

There are growing concerns about the worldwide expansion of coral reef destruction. Research team: “This is an extremely ...

This devastation is the result of stony coral tissue loss disease, a coral epidemic first identified in Florida in 2014. Rapidly spreading along the state’s extensive reef track, the disease has ...

Stony coral tissue loss disease is killing at least 20 species of Caribbean corals, according to Blake Ushijima, a postdoc at the Smithsonian Marine Station in Fort Pierce, Florida. The disease was ...

Australian researchers are designing a global real-time monitoring system to help save the world's coral reefs from further ...

Another species, the Goniopora, became infected by black band disease, which invades the coral’s tissue and can kill it. “Our findings underscore the urgent need for action to protect coral ...

Plastic pollution in the world's oceans are threatening the already endangered coral reefs with disease, a new study has warned. More than 11 billion plastics are currently putting coral reefs ...

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center partnered with Erinn Muller, a research representative on Florida Keys National ...

The proposal is based on population declines and susceptibility to a recently emerged coral disease, according to the Service. “This summer’s record-breaking marine heat waves have been truly ...

The research also highlights the complex interplay between heat stress, disease onset and coral mortality. Notably, Goniopora corals developed black band disease, contributing to the high ...