By Claire Turrell Samoa, an archipelagic country composed of nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean, is on the frontline of climate change. Rising sea levels, ocean warming and acidification all pose ...

Volcanic islands, such as those in Hawaii and the Caribbean, are often fringed by coral reefs – ring-shaped structures that ...

propagating coral and protecting and managing deep ocean habitats. MDBC scientists and technicians aboard a research vessel working in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some ...

We’ve learned that to protect ourselves, we need to protect this mysterious deep-sea area that regulates our climate and powers important ocean businesses. The ocean twilight zone, or ...

Near the eastern coast of Luzon, Philippines, located 50 meters below the sea surface, is the Benham Bank, an underwater ...

Researchers found that reef passes provide circulation to corals by allowing saltwater and maintain their health by transporting nutrients.

They are good general reference imagery for the type of deep ocean observations captured by ROVs.(Image Courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration) We have visually explored less than 0.001 percent of the ...

When Victoria Glynn came to Panama to study the effects of extreme ocean temperatures on coral reefs at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) as a pre-doctoral fellow in professor ...