A study led by Associate Professor Kelton McMahon at University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography has found that food webs on tropical reefs are more fragile than we once thought.

They’ve been crawling across the seafloor for more than 500 million years – predating the dinosaurs – yet sea stars remain some of the most misunderstood animals on Earth – if they’re even recognized ...

Why do people care about coral reefs? Why does their damage cause such concern and outrage? What drives people to go to great ...

A startling new study shows that the waters surrounding Hawai‘i are heading toward levels of ocean acidification not seen in ...

Shanghai will launch a new round of consumer vouchers worth 500 million yuan ($69.6 million) in the second half of 2025 to ...

Researchers will study how ocean currents and river nutrients affect deep coral ecosystems on the West Florida Shelf – one of the Gulf’s largest and least-studied habitats. Funded by the Florida ...

Research Maps Coral Larvae Travel on Great Barrier Reef New research is helping to unlock the connections between corals and the dispersal patterns of their offspring, which is critical for predicting ...

It means treating coral reefs not as fragile decorations, but as vital infrastructure worth protecting—financially, politically, and ecologically. Saving coral reefs isn’t just an environmental ...

The Future Reefs team at the University of Technology Sydney, led by marine biologist Dr. Emma Camp (pictured), wants to protect the reef by finding “super corals,” species that are naturally ...

The number of owners who are underwater is small but growing, and they have recently been concentrated in pandemic boomtowns such as Austin, Texas, and Cape Coral, Fla.

Divers are getting excited about the planned sinking of the SS United States. The once glorious luxury ocean liner is slated to become an artificial reef.