One city commissioner is concerned that construction could “devastate” businesses in one of the city’s signature tourist ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service adopted new regulations to protect deep-sea coral gardens on Sur Ridge, offshore of Monterey, California, following campaigning by Oceana and its allies.

Deep below the ocean surface lie extraordinary places of fire, ice, and ancient rock. These sites challenge what we know about Earth. From hot vents in the Arctic to bubbling methane along coastlines, ...

A new peer-reviewed study led by Israeli researchers has found that coral reefs help control the daily lives of microbes, tiny bacteria, and microscopic algae that live in the water around them. The ...

By Liz Kimbrough A transparent goby fish drifted through the darkness, its skeleton visible through paper-thin skin. Nearby, a sea slug wore yellow polka dots like a party dress, while an orange fish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zach Boakes, the lead author of this article, was supported by a post-doctoral fellowship by Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). Zach declares no financial or non-financial ...

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’ ...