For people who are not experts, what are the signs of a collapsing reef system? Firstly, less color, because there’s less ...

17 best scuba diving sites in the world, from Indonesia to Costa Rica. Here, you'll find rare species, coral reefs, shipwrecks, and more.

Researchers studying a coral disease that has devastated reefs across the Caribbean say they’ve come up with a promising ...

Scientists from the University of Technology Sydney are searching for “super corals,” species that are naturally more ...

More than 500 species of coral are found here—three-quarters of all those known. The reefs they have built would cover an area the size of Ireland. The creatures that live in these submarine ...

Soft corals, which are members of the class Octocorallia, are major components of marine ecosystems, including coral reefs.

An invasive species of starfish is spreading in Penghu's waters, feasting on the coral and damaging the ecosystem. Taiwan has ...

Though thousands of miles from Rarotonga, Brown conducts similar thermal resistance experiments on local eelgrass. She’s been ...

Tropical coral reefs encrust the coastlines of islands and continents near Earth’s equator but this zone, which has offered ...

Thanks to Hawaiʻi’s groundbreaking coral reef insurance policy and the formation of the Hawaiʻi Emergency Reef Restoration ...

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Many of the world’s best dive sites are vanishing. Rising ocean temperatures, coral bleaching, and acidification—driven by climate change—are transforming reefs at an alarming pace.