The Living Architecture of Our Oceans " These incredible structures are built by tiny animals called polyps that secrete calcium carbonate to form their hard skeletons. They occur in more than 100 ...

A new study shows how connected coral reefs in Fiji stay healthier when fishing pressure and pollution are reduced together.

Coral reefs didn’t merely mirror global change, but helped regulate how fast the climate bounced back from massive surges of ...

Coral reefs may seem like paradise, but they are being degraded by a range of global and local factors, including climate ...

Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures ...

On a remote coral reef near Papua New Guinea, endless streams of bubbles rise from cracks in the seabed into the shallow ...

This is especially worrying because these massive corals are normally quite resilient to heat stress. Even the strong are now ...

Lakshadweep is often hailed as India's Coral Island. Learn about its unique formation as an archipelago of true coral atolls, ...

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative announced ...