The world’s coral reefs are endangered from warming oceans, disease and heavy human use. Piece by piece, a group of scientists is working to save the reefs from the edge of extinction.

Learn about the migration routes that ancient humans took when traveling out of Africa and how rising sea levels may have ...

They are relics from thousands of years ago. Scientists make troubling discovery deep beneath ocean's surface — here's what you need to know first appeared on The Cool Down.

A walk in the Caledon area, 60 kilometres northwest of downtown Toronto, will find geological evidence — including coral reefs and mud deltas — from the Upper Ordovician, Lower Silurian and ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered the largest decline in coral cover in two of its three regions over the last year ...

What's going on? The marine heatwave that's damaging Ningaloo started in the Caribbean in 2023 . It then made its way across the Indo-Pacific, damaging coral reefs in its path. In 2024, while the ...

Fossil coral reefs in the islands of the Seychelles may indicate where sea level rise will be felt the hardest as human-caused climate change impacts the world’s oceans.

The mass die-off of coral at Kiritimati made headlines as a harbinger of things to come for reefs around the world. But the news is not all bleak. In their first visit to the reef since ...

Coral reefs are made up of the coral polyps that excrete the substance that forms the reef skeleton, as well as the algae, fish and other sea creatures they support.

The best time to visit the ancient coral reefs is from March to September when it is dry and sunny. The surface of the ancient coral reefs is jagged with sharp-edged rocks and holes like on the ...