Despite being scattered across more than a million square kilometers, new research has revealed that remote coral reefs across the Seychelles are closely related. Using genetic analyses and ...

Conservation bodies have called for urgent interventions to combat coral bleaching in the West Indian Ocean. The organisations, including Cordio East Africa, Arizona State University, the ...

The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote places on Earth. Smack dab in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the collection of more than five dozen tiny islands are mostly uninhabited, due in no ...

A tracking study of two species of sea turtles that nest in the Red Sea revealed the importance of foraging areas and ...

Coral reefs around the world are experiencing a mass bleaching event as the climate crisis drives record-breaking ocean heat, two scientific bodies announced Monday - with some experts warning this ...

Coral reefs, often called the rainforests of the sea, are among the most biologically diverse and ecologically important ecosystems on Earth. Despite covering less than 1% of the ocean floor, they ...

Maldives is known as the Land of the Sea because most of the country is covered by the Indian Ocean and consists of coral ...

TOWNSVILLE, Queensland, Australia, December 11, 2008 (ENS) - The world has lost 19 percent of its coral reefs, according to the 2008 global update of the world's reef status issued Wednesday. Climate ...

A healthy coral reef. When there is a rise in sea temperatures or adverse weather events, they bleach. [Courtesy] Conservation bodies have called for urgent interventions to combat coral bleaching in ...