Nature doesn’t hold back when it comes to color and some of the most dazzling displays can be found in the animal kingdom.

Plunge into the shallows off the Florida Keys, Hawaiʻi or the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and you are likely to meet a ...

Education will play a crucial role in mitigating the consequences. Experts issue warning as emerging trend impacts human and animal life — here's what's happening first appeared on The Cool Down.

WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service announced critical habitat designations today for five threatened coral species living in the Pacific Ocean. The agency’s final rule protects 92 ...

Africa's tropical belt, defined by the Guinean forests of west Africa and the Congo Basin of central Africa, is globally ...

An extraordinary discovery has been made off the coast of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile, in the remote Salas y Gómez Ridge. During a recent expedition led by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, researchers ...

Macroinvertebrates include snails and larvae of dragonflies, caddisflies, mayflies and stoneflies, among others. They can be ...

Earth’s oceans cover roughly 70% of the surface. Beneath the mesmerizing surface, marine life is being captured by nets, traps and other human-made hazards. In the process of struggling to escape, ...

By looking at the microbial communities that live on corals, our research uncovered a crucial role that fishes play in protecting coral reefs. We also discovered that these fishes together with clean ...

Embedding biodiversity requirements in offshore wind auctions could reverse biodiversity loss, researchers claim ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to ...