Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...

Coral reefs are some of the world's most diverse ecosystems. Despite making up less than 1% of the world's oceans, one ...

and many have coral reef ecosystems," says Joe Roman, a biologist at the University of Vermont, who co-led the new research. ...

Coral reefs critical to the protection of coastlines across tropical ... Meanwhile in the north and south polar regions, marine plankton will be lost; some are already growing thinner and weaker ...

Coral bleaching is a global epidemic that reduces vibrant and thriving reefs to rubble. At the current rate of loss, scientists predict that we will lose nearly all of the world’s coral in ...