Deep-sea coral reef discovered off the coast of Naples with an intact ecosystem that has scientists amazed today ...

Benefits to society from coral reefs, including fisheries, tourism, coastal protection, pharmaceutical discovery and more, are estimated at about $9.8 trillion per year. For the first time, an ...

A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover.

Mother and daughter citizen scientists find what is believed to be the largest coral colony on the Great Barrier Reef and possibly in the world.

We know that noisy reefs are healthy, but carefully listening to the sounds made by fish, invertebrates and humans underwater can help us understand the details better, such as changing diversity, ...

Coral reefs make up less than 1% of ocean habitat but are home to at least 25% of marine species. These incredibly biodiverse ecosystems are increasingly threatened by human actions, including ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has ...

The plan was part of an executive order issued in 2023 that set an ambitious timeline to build a coral pipeline to restore the ailing reef. Now labs are scrambling to shuffle funding or risk losing ...

No audio available for this content. This is a challenging time for coral reefs. Although they cover less than 0.1% of the ocean floor, coral reefs support 25% of all marine creatures. Collectively, ...

A conservationist group has spotted coral spawning events for the first time on Song Saa Island in Preah Sihanouk province ...