A seasoned diver exploring a vibrant coral reef makes a startling discovery—an unidentified object hidden among the rocks and marine life. As they carefully extract the item, questions arise: Is it a ...

A new model to help scientists understand the many influences on young corals finding a "forever home" on a reef has been ...

I’ve scuba dived some pretty stellar sites across several Caribbean Islands—St. Martin, Dominica, St. Lucia, and Curaçao, to ...

Two women are working to save the coral reef from the invasive lionfish, using it as a sustainable teaching tool and cooking ...

The Division of Aquatic Resources will be hosting meetings for residents to engage in the site selection process for ...

Colombo Port City’s latest attraction is a naturally occurring coral colony that’s growing rapidly around its breakwater. ..

Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas, and are threatened by factors including ocean acidification, global warming and sea level rise.

Those polyps clone themselves over and over again, eventually forming larger coral colonies that build reefs. That’s how typical reef-building corals, like the iconic elkhorn and staghorn ...

NHA TRANG, Vietnam (AP) — The gentle waves off the coast of central Vietnam's Nha Trang obscure an open secret: The life-giving coral reefs below are dying. The waters are eerily devoid of fish. The ...

With the help of remote underwater video cameras, an international team of scientists has analyzed the spawning aggregation dynamics of the black-saddled coral ... cameras in a reef passage ...