Grazing halos at Heron Island, Australia, are distinct where coral are clustered (outlined with a white box) but merge where coral are dispersed (outlined with a black box). In coral reefs ...

The Coral Triangle has often been compared to the Amazon rainforest, based on the sheer scale of its biodiversity. And now, ...

Gall crabs are tiny, and yet these crustaceans have evolved fluorescence to help them be concealed within hideouts they have ...

One of the few Black female marine ecologists, ... 33, after a morning of snorkeling amid thriving and vibrant coral that borders stark white-reef graveyards.

Along coastlines from Australia to Kenya to Mexico, many of the world's colorful coral reefs have turned a ghostly white in what scientists said on Monday amounted to the fourth global bleaching ...

The bright white margin surrounding the dark brown, living coral tissue is where the coral is bleaching and dying due to the disease. Credit: Kelly Pitts In the meantime, the Smithsonian’s United ...

When the baby coral grows to about the size of a basketball, after about six months, volunteers and a few interns again transplant it onto the reef floor. Some 20,000 coral transplantations are ...

Damaged coral reefs show slower than expected recovery for up to six years before switching to a faster phase of regrowth, according to new research. This ‘two-phase’ recovery pattern was ...

Under the bright blue water of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea, the view is stunning. Expansive coral reefs teeming with life; colorful fish and invertebrates. But something crucial has gone ...