In April 2019, a marine heat wave struck a coral reef on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia, killing much of the coral and the beneficial algae that colonized it. This "bleaching" event reduced ...

Coral reefs are teeming with life: they are home to over a third of all marine animal and plant species on Earth, despite covering less than one percent of the ocean floor. However, this immense ...

A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover.

Proposed Endangered Species Act rollbacks and military expansions are leaving the Pacific’s most diverse coral reefs legally defenseless.

Reef-building stony and fire corals support a rich microbiome consisting largely of unknown species. By leveraging genetic material, ETH researchers have now managed to characterise some of these ...

A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover. But in our new research, we show this might not be the ...

A bright orange clownfish peeks out from the soft green tentacles of a sea anemone. This underwater scene captures the beauty and harmony of marine life in a colorful coral reef environment. Another ...

Water striders are the only insect that live entirely on the ocean’s surface. By some estimates, insects make up 80 percent of named animal species. They’re found all over the world and in all manner ...

Scientists discover underwater mountain ranges, golden towers of coral, and never-before-seen sea creatures.

Reef fish in different oceans often develop similar color patterns because evolution explores the same set of biological possibilities.

A new study recently released found more than half the world's coral reefs are bleached because of ocean warming. Data from more than 15,000 reefs globally analyzed by a team of scientists over a ...

In a world first, scientists that discovered a new type of chiton turned to social media crowdsourcing to come up with the ...