The deep sea still holds many mysteries for humans ... 800 meters is the equivalent of eight football fields. That amount of living coral in one area is a rare discovery, researchers say.

Maybe fly a plane into a storm to collect data, study satellite records for sea surface temperatures ... But how about using living things—like trees and coral reefs—and everyday occurrences ...

Deep-sea coral feeds differently than their shallow-water cousins. Coral in the shallow parts of the ocean use a process called zooxanthellae, in which algae living on the coral's tissue will ...

Beneath the waters off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, a kaleidoscopic ecosystem teems with life. It could become the world’s “last coral refuge” as global heating eradicates reefs elsewhere ...

Often referred to as “rainforests of the sea,” coral reefs are perhaps the greatest, most vibrant expressions of ocean life. Yet due to global warming, already-delicate coral reefs throughout the ...

No matter how many individuals appear in the pages of each edition of Keys Weekly, there are always so many more of our ...

Shimmering fish of every color dart in and out of vibrant colonies of polyps — tiny living ... we know as coral. Many beloved ...

It tells of a time 125,000 years ago, when a modest increase in Earth’s temperatures caused ice sheets to melt and global sea levels to surge. The height of the coral — which can grow only ...

the framework of the coral reef is filled with sediment and cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed to corrosive rainwater that dissolves the unstable ...