BUZZARDS BAY — A coral reef discovered by Massachusetts Maritime Academy students during studies with professor Gary Jaroslow may be named in his honor. Massachusetts Maritime Academy officials have ...

There is a very unique coral reef in Lahaina, Hawai‘i, that was started by hurricane Iniki back in 1992 when huge 30-foot waves tore apart a pier that was used by the pineapple industry. The huge ...

Coral reefs, once thriving underwater cities teeming with life, now face an unprecedented crisis. Scientists have declared that coral reefs have become the first major environmental system on Earth to ...

This is especially worrying because these massive corals are normally quite resilient to heat stress. Even the strong are now struggling to survive.

After three thousand years of precarious stability, when reefs in the Florida Keys managed to grow as much as they deteriorated, scientists now know the only inshore reef in the continental U.S. has ...

Coral reefs, some of the most stunningly beautiful marine ecosystems on Earth, are dying. Ninety percent of them will likely be gone by 2050 due to rising ocean temperatures and pollution. “But it’s ...

The upper panel shows a coral reef margin in Belize with living branched Acropora (elkhorn) and platy Millepora (fire) corals, which are both competitive and fast-growing. The lower panel shows broken ...

The remains of a multimillion-year-old coral reef have been discovered in the middle of a desert in Australia. Southern Australia's Nullarbor Plain, where the reef was found, is now a 76,000-square- ...

Researchers from Curtin University in Western Australia have uncovered an ancient reef structure on the Nullarbor Plain, a large, barren expanse in the desert of southwestern Australia. The Nullarbor ...

The Great Barrier Reef story begins much earlier than most people realize. There is evidence that the Great Barrier Reef is around 650,000 years old, though researchers estimate that the precursor to ...