The research includes a map showing reefs worldwide in greater detail, with depth and temperature data.

Australia’s world-famous Great Barrier Reef is being smashed by almost 400,000 dump trucks-worth of mud each year, smothering ...

New research has identified areas around the world where cooler currents and other favorable conditions are helping to ...

The capacity of coral reefs to provide ecosystem services relied on by millions of people worldwide has declined by half since the 1950s, according to a new University of British Columbia-led study.

Climate change, pollution and ocean-dependent industries are slowly damaging coral reefs around the world. There's something else -- something seemingly innocent -- that could be contributing to the ...

New research published in Science Advances reveals that the largest expansion of coral reefs in the past 100 million years happened about 20 to 10 million years ago, between Australia and Southeast ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing yet another mass coral bleaching event due to heat, the country’s government confirmed Friday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...

For giant reef manta rays that call the shallow waters of Papua New Guinea home, radical weather is nothing new. The island’s ...

A diver being towed by a boat conducts a survey of the Great Barrier Reef Coral has recovered from storms and bleaching events to record levels across much of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a survey ...

Miners in Spain found giant reef fossils from an ancient ocean. This quarrying activity exposed a buried ecosystem. Similar discoveries in Britain also revealed ancient marine life. These fossil reefs ...