Meet the longest living animal on Earth, whose lifespan stretches back thousands of years! More ancient than Shakespeare, ...

A hummingbird whips past, hovers briefly to sip nectar from a costus flower, and vanishes again ... was derived from an obscure Caribbean coral reef sponge discovered in 1949.

It’s called drift snorkeling, and the water’s guiding them over Ningaloo, one of the world’s longest near-shore reefs, revealing coral that’s as white as the sand on the sea floor ...

That’s why the work these scientists are doing at the Flower Garden Banks sanctuary is so important. They’re studying and protecting this underwater wonderland, 160 square miles of coral reef ...

In coral reefs throughout the world, visually striking bands of bare sand surrounding reefs are often visible in satellite imagery but their cause remains a mystery. One theory is fear.

The biodiversity of Earth's oceans is disproportionately concentrated in coral reefs—the vibrant undersea ecosystems where thousands of known marine species reside. A new Yale-led study offers ...

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative ...

Blue Shield of California disclosed it suffered a data breach after exposing protected health information of 4.7 million members to Google's analytics and advertisement platforms. The nonprofit ...

In Florida, for example, coral reefs act as a natural buffer to storm energy that can shield coastlines from destructive forces. According to Wiedenmann, coral reefs support a third of all marine ...

SAN JOSE — The popular sunscreen maker Sun Bum will pay $300,000 in civil penalties and has dropped “reef friendly” descriptions from its products to settle a lawsuit filed in Santa Clara ...

MATANOG, MAGUINDANAO DEL NORTE, Philippines — Abaca trees are bringing relief to the main base of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) under threat of climate change. Also damaged was a wall ...