Around the world, coral reefs are under threat from rising ocean temperatures, deteriorating water conditions, and diseases ...

This coral keeps time without a brain, showing how distributed nerve nets can synchronize movement across an entire animal.

A joint study by Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa set out to solve a scientific mystery: how a soft coral is ...

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 ...

A tracking study of two species of sea turtles that nest in the Red Sea revealed the importance of foraging areas and ...

Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life, with about one-quarter of all ocean species depending on reefs for food and shelter at some point in their lifecycle.

OFF THE COAST OF EFATE ISLAND, Vanuatu (AP) — Beneath the turquoise waters of Vanuatu, amid a graveyard of broken coral, a moray eel peers from the branches of a staghorn colony. Nearby, the feathered ...

What started out as a great idea and an attempt to save the environment ended in destruction. The shipping industry is not ...