How many coral reefs can you name? Meaning, the actual proper noun used to refer to it. You may be able to list plenty of countries and islands with good snorkeling and diving opportunities — the ...

Developer Keith Williams ignited one of Australia’s fiercest environmental fights when he announced his plan to build a marina resort at Cardwell, 120 km north of Townsville, in 1993. Conservationists ...

Record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years in an effort to prop up a threatened species that’s highly ...

In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the ...

The first-in-the-world experiment began not with a splash, but with a gasp from a respirator. Neoprene-clad scientists sank to the shallow bottom of Flamingo Reef off Key Biscayne, clutching black ...

Over the nearly 40 years that the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility has been operating, some of the recycled water that is disposed of into deep injection wells has reached the ocean through ...

Beneath the waters of the Red Sea, biologist Aaron Miroz and marine conservationist and filmmaker John Stoneman study the complex workings of the coral reef community. Here, off the tip of the Sinai ...

According to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, most of the coral surveyed off the Florida Keys are dead after last year's record heatwave that caused prolonged warm ...

Known as the oasis of the sea, coral reefs are among the ocean's most wondrous and mystical life forms. Take a voyage deep beneath the water in Oceans Alive, a 5-DVD exploration of the inner workings ...

In October 2016, an article began circulating social media outlets with the headline “Obituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-2016),” announcing the abrupt death of one of the most diverse and ...