The Cook Islands, located in the South Pacific, are an unspoiled paradise. With 15 islands spread across 2 million square ...

This coral species, known as acropora hemprichii, grows in the shallow reefs of the Maldives in tapered branches which eventually look like a bush or dome as they grow. That piece ...

Ningaloo Reef is in trouble after a vast underwater heatwave caused a devastating bleaching event. It's becoming very ...

Duygu Sevilgen uses extremely small sensors to record the fine details of coral skeletons and listen to their dialogue with ...

Bleached coral reefs usually appear as an endless stretch ... “I was blown away… I’ve never seen something so beautiful, but it’s dying.” on your phone? Click “360” then move The ...

For nearby accommodations, check out The Reefs Resort & Club. (Getty Images)| The Bahamas' 3-mile-long Pink Sand Beach gets its color from crushed pink and red shells of microscopic coral insects.

"Coral reefs are more than just really beautiful dynamic things underwater. They provide to humans even while we're in land, they provide to other organisms that are on land and under the water ...

Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a ...

Spanning 14 degrees of latitude, this complex reef system is not only the greatest expanse of coral in the world, it is the Earth’s largest living structure, a massive, beautiful, and ancient ...