C. Mark Eakin is the former head of Coral Reef Watch at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In a new study, he and his colleagues found that a 2014 to 2017 heat wave caused moderate ...

Why are there so many species of coral reef fish? According to a new study, it's because about 50 million years ago, some fish figured out how to bite food from hard surfaces.

Historic deep-sea find: A 560-mile cold-water coral reef system was found in 2025–26 off Argentina, potentially among the largest ever documented. Rare species hotspot: The reef is dominated by ...

Austin Bowden-Kerby, a pioneer in coral reef conservation, spends many of his days gardening corals for reefs around Fiji and ...

Coral reefs are some of the world's most diverse ecosystems. Despite making up less than 1% of the world's oceans, one ...

For decades, coral reefs throughout the Caribbean have been suffering from disease, pollution, overfishing and rising sea ...

Huaguang Reef, one of the expansive atolls in the Xisha Islands, is completely mature, stretching 31 kilometers from east to west and 12 kilometers from north to south. Positioned as a concealed reef ...

Beneath the beauty of coral reefs lies a hidden universe of microbes unlike anything scientists expected. Each coral species ...

The Trump administration has cut jobs and funding for scientific research and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) climate monitoring, which together have led a global effort to ...