Here at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef, you’re practically guaranteed to see them. Descending toward this ...

While they tracked the reef for mou, the islanders warned of a dugong sighting—an omen and a memory from older times. As the spear dropped, a shadow moved. The shot hit—but the fish twisted deep into ...

Lee Daniels is an Academy Award–nominated producer and director whose films include “Monster’s Ball,” “Precious,” “The Butler ...

Tristan Salles receives funding from Australian Research Council. Laurent Husson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

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 ...

Floridians are not used to hearing the word “extinct” applied to species that play significant roles in the state’s ecological and economic landscape. So last week, when researchers with the National ...

‘Predator: Badlands’ contains several references to the ‘Alien’ franchise, but how deep does the connection go, and what does it mean for future sewu Alien and Predator aren’t nearly as intertwined as ...

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 ...

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 ...

MIAMI — Earth just reached its first catastrophic climate tipping point. Coral reefs around the world are facing widespread dieback. “Unless we take radical steps, I fear that we’re going to see the ...

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The ...

Coral reefs around the globe have for years suffered publicly in warming oceans, periodically making headlines when iconic underwater landscapes lose their colors and wither during repeated mass ...