New research has revealed alarming coral mortality rates of 92% after last year's bleaching event at Lizard Island on ...

Scientists studied baby corals and found that some species stay very close to their parents while others travel huge ...

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

Urgent effort underway to save coral reefs from rising ocean temperatures off Florida Keys 05:02. After a disastrous year for coral reefs in which abnormally high ocean temperatures served a fatal ...

An alfonsino fish swims above Lophelia pertusa coral off the southeastern coast of the U.S., in June 2019. Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, off the U.S. Atlantic Coast.

The ocean may be nature’s single greatest gift to humanity. It provides about half of the oxygen we breathe, feeds billions ...

Volcanic islands, such as the islands of Hawaii and the Caribbean, are surrounded by coral reefs that encircle an island in a ...

A map showing the topography of the Stetson Mesa north region of the Million Mounds, an important habitat supporting a diversity of marine life. Credit: NOAA Scientists recently discovered the largest ...

It was a diving trip off the coast of Southern California that sparked the idea for the establishment of Blue Latitudes and its Rigs to Reefs project. Founded by two female marine scientists with a ...

The result is a high-resolution map that gives fresh insight into the distribution of reefs. The Allen Coral Atlas initiative has identified approximately 348,000 square kilometers of shallow ...

They then used artificial intelligence to analyze reef map images at about a 2-meter resolution, or about 6.5 feet, and 16-meter, or 52.5-feet, depth, according to the study.

Coral reefs are the rain forests of the ocean. They are beacons of biodiversity that house a quarter of all marine species and provide food and livelihoods to more than half a billion people ...