On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...

Coral reefs off Texas coast thriving Fish swim around brain coral deep below ocean at the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023.

They live in the ocean’s coldest, darkest depths, far from sight — but cold-water corals are far from safe. In a first-of-its ...

Instead of losing a further 70% of coral reefs, we could limit losses to around 30%. This finding underscores the critical importance of urgent human action.

This is what allows the distribution of corals to shift over time, and the fossil record shows coral reef expansions have happened before, Vogt-Vincent notes. Where larvae go is largely determined ...

A healthy coral reef in American Samoa, left, experiencing coral bleaching due to a severe marine heatwave, center, and eventually dying, right. The Ocean Agency and Ocean Image Bank., CC BY-NC ...

It is of vital importance to, on occasion, consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given ...

As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

A diver swims beneath a mass of seaweed. Stretching some 5,000 miles across, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt can be an oasis for sea creatures—but a smelly nuisance for beachgoers through ...

These protected areas bring an incredible amount of biodiversity right into the bustling metropolis–including coral reefs.

Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Marine in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral ...

Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Marine in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral ...