It’s a much bigger deal when an entire existing ecosystem threatens to go extinct, but the first such event is now knocking at our door: the mass death of the coral reefs. Almost all the world ...

CAIRO (AP) — A recreational submarine taking 45 tourists on an underwater cruise of coral reefs in the Red Sea sank off the Egyptian resort town of Hurghada on Thursday, leaving six Russians ...

Great Basin National Park is a lesser-known treasure where visitors can enjoy the solitude of the ancient bristlecone pines ...

A new study out of the University of Vermont quantifies just how much migrating female whales do to sustain ocean ecosystems.

Warm-water coral reefs are the prime worry ... and birds in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. Experiments show that pteropod shells grow more slowly in acidified seawater. Will organisms be ...

Mattie Rodrigue, science director at OceanX, shares what she's learned in the last 5 years – and what it means for the future ...

"It has gone deep, it's not just the top of the reef that is bleaching. Many different species of coral are bleaching." Branching through shallow waters along Australia's western coast, the 300 ...

Researchers have found that reef fish from the Arabian Gulf, the world's hottest sea, exhibit a higher tolerance to temperature fluctuations compared to those from more thermally stable coral reefs.

Reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted from a reef-dwelling crab, especially when the coral was heat-stressed and wounded.