Marine biologists sampling coral reef waters multiple times a day have shown how they shape surrounding marine life.

A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore ...

When a ship sinks, it is often in tragic circumstances. Beneath the waves, however, a different story unfolds: shipwrecks become the foundations of new life. Rusting hulls, broken masts and even piles ...

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Coral reefs may seem like paradise, but they are being degraded by a range of global and local factors, including climate change, poor water quality, and overfishing. New research reveals that ...

The extent of coral reefs worldwide has played a key role in Earth’s climate in the past 250 million years – but not in the way you might expect. Coral reefs are net producers of carbon dioxide ...

A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and disease. It could be used to restore dying Caribbean reefs—if scientists can figure out how it survived. Despite being exposed to decades of ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- A new global report warns coral reefs have already reached a climate tipping point, dying faster than they can naturally recover. The Global Tipping Points Report, authored ...

After 10,000 years, they're now gone. Nearly all of Florida’s critically endangered Acropora coral colonies are now dead, after a record-breaking ocean heat wave in 2023. This marks the species’ ...

His charges are a type of soft coral called gorgonians. "They're a fundamentally important part of the Caribbean and Floridian coral reef habitat," he says. Foord tends to more than 2,000 tiny soft ...

RODRIGUEZ, WPBF 25 NEWS. WELL, YESTERDAY WE TOLD YOU HOW A MAJORITY OF THE PLANET’S CORAL REEFS HAVE BEEN DAMAGED BY GLOBAL WATER TEMPERATURES. SO HOW ARE OUR CORAL REEFS DOING ALONG THE TREASURE ...

Some coastal resorts are in a unique position to help protect the marine life that draws so many visitors in the first place. As coral reefs around the world face unprecedented stress from warming ...