Coral bleaching caused by heat stress (warm water ... potentially associated with human impacts and/or outflow of freshwater from the island. In contrast, Porites corals at Palmyra, a wildlife reserve ...

Here we splice together fossil-coral oxygen isotopic records from Palmyra Island in the tropical Pacific Ocean to provide 30–150-year windows of tropical Pacific climate variability within the ...

“Coral reefs are simply too valuable to lose,” Joe Pollock, a senior coral reef resilience scientist with the Nature Conservancy’s Hawaii and Palmyra Programs who was not involved in the ...

"Of the coral that survived, especially the Porites species, they were coping well, even thriving," McLachlan said. "They were able to adapt to the above-average temperature and acidity." ...

A coral the size of a carousel is the widest known in the Great Barrier Reef. Found just off the coast of Goolboodi Island in Northeast Australia, this reef-building genus Porites coral measures ...

and temperatures that are too warm can lead to so-called coral bleaching events that can kill a reef. They found that those Porites at the southern end of Australia's west coast have been growing ...

Coral is again flourishing in the crater left by the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States, 54 years after the blast on Bikini Atoll, marine scientists reported Tuesday.

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Hu Shijian from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) investigated the Porites coral Sr/Ca ratios from southern Taiwan ...

Comparison of Kuroshio transport reconstructed from the coral Sr/Ca for southeastern Taiwan island (KT STW, black) and the 3-year running averages of the global ocean heat content (OHC) for the 0 ...