In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, we journey to 2035, when undersea ...

Volcanic islands, such as the islands of Hawaii and the Caribbean, are surrounded by coral reefs that encircle an island in a ...

Tropical coral reefs encrust the coastlines of islands and continents near Earth’s equator but this zone, which has offered ...

Swimming through the shadowy waters off Palau, scuba divers watched life on a coral reef after dark. One reddish sea creature ...

Researchers have discovered a giant coral colony on the north-western coast of Saudi Arabia, in a part of the Red Sea that is being developed as a luxury tourist resort. The colony, a feature ...

Climate change is the final blow for reefs, causing ocean temperatures to rise, leading to coral bleaching. Our food is ...

The algae living within corals share nutrients ... More information: Elamurugu Alias Gokul et al, Remotely sensing coral bleaching in the Red Sea, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation ...

Unlike most other living organisms, they don’t rely on ... Researchers have discovered two new and unusual species of bacteria in deep-sea coral in the Gulf of Mexico. The discovery, announced ...

Deep-sea coral feeds differently than their shallow-water cousins. Coral in the shallow parts of the ocean use a process called zooxanthellae, in which algae living on the coral's tissue will ...

Fossil corals in the Seychelles show sea level rose rapidly in the past, warning that today’s warming could trigger even ...

When water is too warm, coral will expel the algae -- otherwise known as zooxanthellae -- living in their tissues ... Otherwise known as the "rainforests of the sea," coral supports biodiversity ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. The massive 2010 oil spill damaged or killed coral in the Gulf of Mexico ...