Divers with I.CARE or Islamorada Conservation and Restoration Education plant coral reef sponges on Alligator Reef off of Islamorada in the Florida Keys on Thursday, May 12, 2022.

Scientists have found a coral reef that until recently had never been seen before. BBC ... cancer and heart disease have all been made using extracts from animals and plants on reefs around the world.

The reefs of the eastern tropical Pacific along the coasts of Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Panama are shallow, and most consist of Pocillopora, a type of stony coral that looks like cauliflower.

Simulation results indicate that reduced coral reef calcification due to ocean acidification could increase the ocean's carbon uptake by 1–5% by 2100 and up to 13% by 2300.

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative ...

You can help save Florida's Coral Reef Divers with I.CARE or Islamorada Conservation and Restoration Education plant coral reef sponges on Alligator Reef off of Islamorada in the Florida Keys on ...

Coral reefs are both beautiful and utterly vital to the ocean ecosystem and the local environment. They provide homes, food and breeding sites for millions of marine plants and animals, including ...