Picture yourself lounging on a stunning Mexican Caribbean beach, sipping margaritas without emptying your wallet. It sounds ...

A landmark global treaty to safeguard biodiversity in the high seas came into effect on Saturday, providing countries with a ...

It is not surprising that the Dominican Republic is among the best Caribbean countries for scuba diving, as it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and the Caribbean Sea to the south.  With ...

A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and disease. It could be used to restore dying Caribbean reefs—if scientists can figure out how it survived. Despite being exposed to decades of ...

The extent of coral reefs worldwide has played a key role in Earth’s climate in the past 250 million years – but not in the way you might expect. Coral reefs are net producers of carbon dioxide ...

It may be surprising that Cozumel, the 30-mile-long island just off Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula that is one of the world's busiest cruise ship destinations, can still feel comfortably uncrowded, ...

Martin County will sink former smuggling vessel as artificial reef on Tuesday, Nov. 18. Artificial reefs provide 39,000 jobs for Floridians and generates $3.1 billion of economic activity annually.

Over the past twenty years, coral reef restoration has seen unprecedented growth worldwide. From Indonesia to the Caribbean, thousands of projects have been launched with the goal of "saving" coral ...

Zach Boakes, the lead author of this article, was supported by a post-doctoral fellowship by Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). Zach declares no financial or non-financial ...

His charges are a type of soft coral called gorgonians. "They're a fundamentally important part of the Caribbean and Floridian coral reef habitat," he says. Foord tends to more than 2,000 tiny soft ...

What it's like to night dive on the Great Barrier Reef Stretching almost 1,500 miles, the Great Barrier Reef is so vast that just 20% has been surveyed. With tourism funding millions in conservation ...