If time feels like a luxury, the cure is island time: that unhurried rhythm where schedules dissolve and days drift with the tide. While Australia’s own coastlines boast pristine getaways, sometimes ...

Tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, but these colorful seascapes are built by tiny jellyfish-like animals called corals. While adult corals build solid structures that are firmly attached ...

I can’t quite explain the feeling I got when I entered the sparkling, turquoise waters of the Great Barrier Reef.

Coral reefs might make you think of beautiful tropical islands and shallow seas teaming with fish, but there exist other kinds of reefs that occur at deeper depths. These are known as mesophotic coral ...

Sixty years after surveyors first uncovered evidence of a sprawling coral reef off the West African nation of Benin, ...

Tropical coral reefs cover less than 1% of the seafloor, yet support 25% of all marine species. They are also incredibly vulnerable. Over the past few decades, an estimated 30–50% have already been ...

Some 60 years ago scientists documented a coral reef off the coast of Benin in West Africa that they presumed was already ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...

Researchers compared DNA from corals and their symbiotic organisms from two sites along the Pacific coast of Panama to better understand how the different members of the coral holobiont influence ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Barrier Reef stretches for 1,429 miles just off Australia's northeastern coast. Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty ...

The 2025 Global Tipping Points Report finds that the world’s warm-water coral reefs have become the first Earth system to cross its thermal tipping point, putting them at dire risk. The massive reefs, ...