Blue-green chromis Ringing the coral with pops of color, this type of damselfish often occurs in large numbers. Douwma documented these in 2015 in the Red Sea off Egypt’s coast.

More information: Elamurugu Alias Gokul et al, Remotely sensing coral bleaching in the Red Sea, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (2025). DOI: 10.1002/rse2.70000 ...

On the colorful coral reefs in the South China Sea, countless fish, crustaceans and marine creatures swim in and out of the delicate structures. With so many animals calling the reef home, it ...

NOAA Coral Reef Watch's global 5-kilometer-resolution satellite Coral Bleaching Alert Area Maximum map, for Jan. 1, 2023 to April 10, 2024. This figure shows the regions around the globe that ...

The white coloring is healthy: Deep-sea corals don’t rely on symbiotic algae so they can’t bleach. Image courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, Windows to the Deep 2019 ...

With climate change ravaging Florida’s beloved reef, people who’ve devoted their careers to restoring coral in the sea are now racing to get it out of the water, to tanks on land.

The white coloring is healthy–deep-sea corals don’t rely on symbiotic algae, so they can’t bleach. Images of these corals were taken during a 2019 expedition dive off the coast of Florida.

But first, scientists recently discovered the largest known deep sea coral reef in the world. It’s called Million Mounds, and it stretches all the way from Miami to Charleston, South Carolina. It’s ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that ...

A precision remote sensing tool uses high-resolution ocean color data to predict ... in thousands of satellite images to ... I. Remotely sensing coral bleaching in the Red Sea.