The first dive at Siaba Besar reveals vibrant coral reefs filled with sea turtles, clownfish, and other marine life. A ...

The decline of coral reefs is often described through bleaching events, rising sea temperatures and fading marine life. Less attention is paid to something that disappears at the same time: sound. A ...

Once relative sea level rises by more than 0.21 inches a year, reefs have an estimated greater than 90% chance of no longer sustaining upward growth. The researchers said that level could be reached ...

This past spring, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the world was undergoing a "global coral-bleaching event" due to the record-setting warmth of our oceans—the fourth ...

The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in Hawaii, an area popular with snorkelers and divers, is teeming with spiny creatures that threaten to push the coral reef “past the point of recovery,” new ...

Coral reefs make up just 1 percent of ocean coverage, but host a quarter of all life in the sea.

Learn how coral reefs drive daily changes in ocean microbes — a process that shapes how nutrients and energy move through reef ecosystems. Each day, coral reefs quietly reshape the microscopic world ...

Rising sea temperatures mean reefs don’t have enough time to bounce back between intense heat waves, a new report warns.

Factors such as warming waters and pollution cause the algae that lives on coral — and which is a major food source for the ...

The crown-of-thorns starfish is a large coral-eating sea star found across tropical reefs. During population outbreaks, its ...

Great Barrier Reef runs off the north-east coast of Australia as a vast marine landscape, and Cairns is a common starting ...

Over the past twenty years, coral reef restoration has seen unprecedented growth worldwide. From Indonesia to the Caribbean, thousands of projects have been launched with the goal of “saving” coral ...