This May, divers found stony coral tissue loss disease on corals in Laughing Bird Caye National Park, Belize, for the first ...

New research from Simon Brandl at The University of Texas at Austin challenges a long-held belief about coral reefs.

Each of the different islands of the Seychelles has its reason to visit, as Sarah Kingdom discovered on a recent visit.

With the average ocean surface temperature hitting 70 degrees, the rising heat is speeding up coral deaths. It used to take years to kill a reef. Now, it can take weeks — sometimes days.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is being literally ... (Supplied) A poster for the "Blue Light District", an event for aquarium enthusiasts to buy, sell and trade coral in Sydney.

“The goal is to raise awareness about marine issues, but also to celebrate the connection to the ocean,” says MariAnna Hinojosa, director of the Big Blue film festival. Hinojosa is also a ...

The discovery was made by accident during an expedition to study ocean ... a reef, could be over 300 years old. It belongs to the hard coral species known as Pavona clavus. The world's largest coral, ...

I was not surprised when scientists recently observed a 300-year-old coral colony in the Solomon Islands, so big it looked ... as 80% of the ocean remains unexplored and 91% of species unidentified.

The world’s largest coral has just been discovered in the southwest Pacific Ocean ... and longer than a blue whale, the planet’s biggest animal. Unlike a reef, which consists of many colonies ...

While “Big Momma” is as tall as a giraffe, the new coral is the size of a blue whale. The Solomon Islands ... According to UNESCO, the coral reefs in all 29 reef-containing World Heritage ...

“While Big Momma looked like a huge scoop of ice cream plopped down on the reef ... blue and red, and its rippled surface resembles ocean waves, according to the team. Moreover, the mega coral ...