Deep-sea mining in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean could harm ocean life including whales and dolphins, new research shows ...

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 ...

Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. coast. Researchers have known since the 1960s that some coral were present off the ...

A mega coral has been discovered by scientists in the Solomon Islands, which holds centuries of ocean secrets. ADVERTISEMENT Scientists have discovered the world’s largest coral in the Solomon ...

The deep-sea coral Callogorgia delta is home to two newly discovered species of unusual bacteria. Image credit: ECOGIG consortium ( CC0 1.0 ) DOWNLOAD PDF VERSION ...

There, she works on the Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities - Coral Propagation Technique Development project - which is the long, scientific name for restoring ocean habitats below 164 feet ...

Amid the incredible areas is a 160-mile-long dense coral reef known as the Million Mounds that stretches from Florida to Georgia and is the world’s largest known continuous deep-sea coral reef.

The curious coral is just one of the expedition's finds over the past few weeks. They previously explored the Svyatogor Ridge, a site at a depth of around 3,700 meters (12,140 feet) within the ...