The new study shows even isolated reefs can self-seed and make a comeback.  Researchers studied isolated atoll coral reefs ...

The Arctic's Shifting Landscapes The Arctic is a vast, icy world where numerous species such as polar bears, seals, and ...

Researchers are designing a global real-time monitoring system to help save the world's coral reefs from further decline, primarily due to bleaching caused by global warming.

Time-lapse video shows how a mushroom coral polyp pulses and inflates, flinging its soft body into micro-hops to slowly move itself to a new location.

A new study by Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota has revealed a potential link between red tide algal blooms and long-term ...

Researchers from James Cook University are looking into measures of past temperature variation to better predict the risk of ...

Hastings was inspired to launch the initiative after he showed students in his Advanced Placement environmental science class ...

Infected sea urchin on Reunion Island. Photo credit: Jean-Pascal Quod.

When Palacio and her team examined coral reefs after the 2015–2016 heat wave, they found that particular corals called ...

You will cherish those moments in life where your breath was taken away by beauty. The human senses and the human mind together define beauty and whether art imitates life or life imitates art, we ...

Daniel Wangpraseurt is a marine biologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. He received his bachelor’s ...

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center partnered with Erinn Muller, a research representative on Florida Keys National ...