Saving coral reefs starts with knowing their species, but corals often fool us by changing looks or hiding true diversity.

Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is a novel coral disease that first emerged in Florida in 2014, and has now spread to 33 countries and territories in the Caribbean, including along the ...

The pair say they were struck by the degree of bleaching in gigantic boulder-like bommies, or reef outcrops, comprised of a stony coral called porites. "We went inside, swam [through the] nooks ...

Even the heat-resistant Porites, usually a refuge for turtles ... Although some species (the stony corals Goniastrea and Pavona) experienced lower mortalities, surveys also revealed how quickly ...

The coral was sick. And this paste might help heal it. In the last decade, a mysterious illness called stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) has been ravaging coral in reefs across the Caribbean.

Researchers are also experimenting with probiotic treatments, using beneficial bacteria to shield corals from diseases like the devastating stony coral ... of a massive Porites coral in Ningaloo ...

The outbreak of a deadly disease called stony coral tissue loss disease is destroying susceptible species of coral in the Caribbean while helping other, “weedier” organisms thrive — at least for now — ...

They chose to use the coral species Porites astreoides because it is especially abundant ... especially with global warming increasing bleaching events, and Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease devasting ...