This photograph, taken by an International Space Station astronaut while in orbit over the Caribbean Sea, captures one of Earth’s most alluring ocean locations. The Great Blue Hole lies near the ...

A new study published by oceanographers from the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences (AIMS) found that remote atoll coral reefs are more resilient than previously thought because of their ability ...

The reefs at Palmyra Atoll, a small outlying atoll in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, have been undergoing a shift from stony corals to systems dominated by corallimorphs, marine invertebrates that ...

There are some things we need to talk aboutI've been thinking about some of the topics, problems and even solutions I want to kick around with you this year. Here are a... Insight from Internova: ...

Sharks are known for their solitary and wide-ranging nature, but recent research from the University of California, Santa Barbara, shows that certain populations have something like a “rush hour” ...

The coral fragment from the seafloor off the coast of the resort Siyam World Maldives in the Noonu Atoll had a stark contrast. One inch of the coral’s light brown tips was bumpy with living polyps, ...

FILE PHOTO: Aerial view of the contested Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea BEIJING (Reuters) -China said on Monday "illegal" beaching of Philippine warships at the Nansha islands in the South ...

Ecological restoration may save coral atoll islands from the rising seas of climate change, according to an international team of scientists, conservationists, and an indigenous leader. Ecological ...

Coral reef islands and their reefs – found across in the Indo-Pacific – naturally grow and shrink due to complex biological and physical processes that have yet to be fully understood. Now, climate ...