Four hours off the Swedish coast, the R/V Skagerak dropped its robotic submarine into the North Sea. Rhian Waller, the ...

Once a picturesque garden beneath the sea, some stretches of the Florida Coral Reef have now become graveyards. Unburied ...

A coral species that was thought to have been extinct since 2000 has been rediscovered by researchers. In 1975, divers discovered a rare species of black stony coral in the Galápagos Islands. But ...

With another El Niño expected in 2026, only a short time after the last one, many reefs will not have had sufficient time to ...

A new species of coral named after the “Star Wars” character Chewbacca was found in waters off Molokai as well as near the Mariana Trench. “Normally the branches are stiff and they stick out from the ...

A massive black coral, measuring 4 meters high and 4.5 meters wide, has been found by researchers exploring the underwater ...

The marine heatwave that gripped Florida in 2023 was hotter than anything Florida has seen in 150 years, and claimed at least two victims — species of corals now marked ‘functionally extinct’ from ...

Healthy corals, like this one in Puerto Rico, have color. Bleached corals appear white. By Seán Kinane/WMNF News (2015). In early June 2023, the coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys and the Dry ...

The designations come 11 years after the five imperiled species were placed on the Endangered Species List. NOAA has placed new environmental restrictions on more than 58,000 acres of ocean bottom in ...

The Coral Triangle is an extremely biodiverse patch of ocean around the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Its relatively murky waters appear to shield it against climate change — for now. When you ...

An invasive soft coral has been spotted in Hawaii and Puerto Rico and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is warning Florida to start preparing. Xenia pulse corals are soft corals that ...