Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ORLANDO, Fla. – Simulated moonlight. Perfect temperatures. A hum of bubbling saltwater. A team of marine biologists had done ...

KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to transplant crossbred coral fragments onto a reef off ...

Ocean temperatures have been unusually hot, which turns the corals a ghostly white. Coral bleaching is expected to get worse as the climate keeps getting hotter. Scientists aim to help corals survive.

O cean heat is killing corals at such high rates that in April scientists declared Earth was in its fourth global bleaching event—the second in a decade. The announcement came from the U.S. National ...

Scientists are transplanting crossbred coral fragments onto a Miami reef, devastated by bleaching two years ago. This collaborative effort by the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and ...

About a year ago, the seas got unusually hot, even by our current, overheated standards. Twelve months of broken records later, the oceans are still more feverish than climate models and normal ...

Supermarket shelves abound with yogurt and other products chock-full of probiotics — “good bacteria” — meant to cultivate our inner microbial life. Though the evidence around these products is mixed, ...

A preliminary study of the damage done by last summer's record heat wave to Florida's coral reefs is in — and the results are not good. Barely one-fifth of the staghorn corals survived. And elkhorn ...