Environmental groups have captured images of sediment run-off turning the otherwise emerald green waters around Indonesia's ...

ON THE sun-soaked Perhentian Islands in Terengganu, where turquoise waters stretch towards the horizon, lies one of ...

The PMRS station focuses on monitoring the health of island coral reefs and combines scientific research with a biocultural conservation approach. Image credit PRMS website. PMRS aims to improve ...

Most coral reefs in the Caribbean could stop growing, and even start eroding away, by 2040 if global warming continues unchecked, a new study finds. Coral reefs, especially those near shores, protect ...

Coral reefs are renowned for their beauty as well as their diversity. But not many people know that most of the diversity found around coral reefs is completely hidden to the naked eye. Welcome to the ...

Coral reefs provide habitats rich in biodiversity and offer protection against flooding. Climate change threatens their existence if sea-level rise (SLR) outpaces the ability of coral reefs to grow ...

Most coral reefs will soon stop growing and may begin to erode—and almost all will do so if global warming hits 2°C, according to a new study in the western Atlantic. An international team, led by ...

Thousands of baby coral will be "born" at The Florida Aquarium. Researchers have orchestrated a "baby boom" of corals that will help fortify the reef systems off the Florida coasts that were heavily ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) — Our beloved coral reefs face serious threats. From disease to widespread bleaching driven by increasing ocean temperatures, scientists warn that without urgent ...

Beneath a cloak of darkness, illuminated only by glow sticks and red-filtered flashlights, researchers waited underwater off Key Largo hoping to witness one of the rarest events of sex in the sea.

In context: Located off the coast of Queensland, Australia, the Great Barrier Reef is the world's most expansive coral reef system, spanning more than 2,300 kilometers and comprising 2,900 individual ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. But due ...