A towering coral reef has emerged from the depths of Australia’s northern waters, reshaping what scientists thought they knew ...

Spokane, Washington Est. May 19, 1883. Current Temperature 69°F. Current Conditions Clear sky ...

Reefs in Florida and the Caribbean struggled for years with pollution and rising temperatures. Then stony coral tissue loss disease arrived in 2014, decimating corals in a deadly wave along ...

In 1999, a team of USF researchers left St. Petersburg on the R/V Bellows and sailed 24 hours southwest to the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

During the same period, turf algae—small, fast-growing plants that can smother coral to death—substantially increased from covering 25 percent of the bay floor in 2021 to 79 percent in 2022.

The reef, which is just under two miles long and is in “pristine” condition, was found by a team of divers mapping the ocean floor for UNESCO.

This video segment, adapted from NOVA, explores how a coral reef ecosystem changes over the course of a day. When the sun is up, colorful fish and other plant-eating animals are active and ...

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 ...

The SHEBA Hope Reef near Bontosua is made of 840 reef stars and about 13,000 fragments of 42 different types of coral. The reef stars were arranged to spell out the word “hope” in 46-foot high ...