The footage showed a seemingly healthy reef, with 8 different types of coral and 8 species of fish sheltering and feeding ...

Pollution and rising sea surface temperatures are decimating the world's coral reef populations. According to a 2020 Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network report, the world's oceans lost roughly 14% of ...

"That was a big moment for us, because suddenly we could actually see the seafloor." ...

How many sea animals would face extinction? Could the corals rebuild themselves from scratch? How would this massive die-off affect humanity? Corals are not rocks. They are huge colonies of a distant ...

"It is actually capturing new coral settlements, which is the foundations of a new reef." ...

Divers touched or hit the reef, on average, about once every four minutes. More than 40% of those contacts caused visible ...

A 60-year mystery has been solved as researchers discover a coral ecosystem on the Benin-Togo continental shelf that is still ...

A coral reef, missing and presumed dead, has been found alive and well off the coast of Benin. Surveys in the 1960s, focused ...

Rachel Feltman: Picture a coral reef. Even if you’re not an avid snorkeler or diver, chances are that movies and childhood trips to the aquarium have given you some sense of how vibrant and lively ...

The Great Barrier Reef suffered its steepest annual coral decline on record in two of its three regions following a 2024 mass ...

The ocean’s most visual barometers of environmental changes are also its most vulnerable creatures. A Filipino coral expert explains coral bleaching, why it happens, and what we can do about it With ...