The reef has bleached before, but for the first time, massive Porites — coral boulders, hundreds of years old — had begun ejecting healthy algae, draining them of color and opening the door ...

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 ...

Here, healthy heads of lobe coral, Porites lobata, are surrounded by bleached rice coral, Montipora capitata, weakened by a marine heat wave. Rice coral is common around Hawaii and in the waters ...

A research diver encounters Porites evermanni coral in Hawai’i. Image courtesy of Keoki Stender. The new paper acknowledges that even if the world agrees to reduce carbon emissions, temperatures ...

In the south-west Pacific, off the coast of one of the tropical Solomon Islands, a giant structure beneath the water’s surface has just been identified as the world’s largest known coral.

Corals have started to bleach. In particular, the massive coral genus Porites experiencing widespread bleaching. About 50℅ of Porites show signs of bleaching. Of this, 10℅ are totally bleached ...

They collected larvae from a hardy coral species named Porites astreoides. It is more commonly known as mustard hill coral, due to its yellow color and lumpy shape. They distributed the larvae ...

Coral reefs, some of the most stunningly beautiful marine ecosystems on Earth, are dying. Ninety percent of them will likely be gone by 2050 due to rising ocean temperatures and pollution.

The researchers studied two dominant coral species in Kaneohe Bay in Oahu, Hawaii: rice coral, Montipora capitata, and finger coral, Porites compressa. Over the decade, these corals were subjected ...