The largest area found has been nicknamed "Million Mounds" by scientists, NOAA said, and is mostly made up of stony, cold-water coral known as Desmophyllum pertusum – previously called Lophelia ...

These corals — surviving at depths from 540 to more than 9,840 meters below sea level — are some of the most diverse, dense, and pristine assemblages of cold-water corals in the world. Alaska corals ...

Two decades ago, scientists didn’t know coral reefs existed in the cold, deep seas off Alaska. Those reefs may now be among the first victims of global warming in a marine environment that’s ...

NOAA Fisheries has concluded that a petition to list 44 species of cold water corals off Alaska as threatened or endangered does not present substantial information that listing under the ...

By Keith Anthony Fabro They live in the ocean’s coldest, darkest depths, far from sight — but cold-water corals are far from ...

The most widespread reef-building cold-water coral is Lophelia pertusa. This species has built the largest known reef, the Røst reef off the coast of Norway – 40km long and 3km wide, at a depth ...

The mound region is made up of cold-water coral mounds, ... is mainly made up of stony coral. The species, Desmophyllum pertusum, is mainly found in the ocean at 656 to 3,280 feet deep.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska’s rare coral gardens will be protected under a new federal rule setting large areas of the sea floor off-limits to bottom trawling. The new rule protects 370,000 ...

Alaska's rare coral gardens are now protected under a new federal rule setting large areas of the sea floor off-limits to bottom trawling. The new rule protects 370,000 square miles of ocean floor ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An environmental group is petitioning the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to list 43 cold-water corals as threatened species.