After a disastrous year for coral reefs in which abnormally high ocean temperatures served a fatal blow to many of the vital underwater ecosystems, researchers have found a glimmer of hope off the ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, and their survival is inextricably linked to our own. They provide nesting grounds and homes for hundreds of species, prevent coastal ...

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — Thursday is World Oceans Day, a day to celebrate our planet’s ocean and amplify global efforts to preserve and restore it. Education is in the DNA of conservation. On the ...

Under the bright blue water of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea, the view is stunning. Expansive coral reefs teeming with life; colorful fish and invertebrates. But something crucial has gone missing ...

As coral reefs struggle to adapt to warming waters, high levels of pollution and sea-level rise, ballooning sea-urchin populations are threatening to push some reefs in Hawaii past the point of ...

Scientists mapped the largest deep-sea coral reef, which stretches over millions of acres off the Atlantic from Florida to South Carolina and is bigger than Vermont, according to the news release. "It ...

Deep sea corals that colonised oil and gas platforms in the North Sea have been moved to a new home on an artificial reef. They have been growing on the legs of subsea structures for decades but are ...

Coral reef islands around the world—home to hundreds of thousands of people—may be capable of adapting naturally to sea level rise as the world warms, researchers have suggested. Previously, ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faces critical danger from back-to-back bouts of extreme ocean heat. Ocean heat in the Coral Sea is at its highest in four centuries, scientists report in the Aug. 8 ...

Scientists working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently discovered a previously unknown coral reef off the US East Coast. The 85-mile-long deep-sea reef is located ...