Florida is known as the Sunshine State, offering lots of natural beauty, and this particular escape found within the Keys is ...

The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

Norfolk Southern has constructed around 1,500 feet of living shoreline to prevent erosion around the Norfolk coal terminal.

These protected areas bring an incredible amount of biodiversity right into the bustling metropolis–including coral reefs.

New research has revealed alarming coral mortality rates of 92% after last year's bleaching event at Lizard Island on ...

Scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium, and Tela Coral in Honduras are transplanting crossbred coral ...

Researchers at the University of Miami are hoping that hybrid corals, created by breeding local corals with those that thrive ...

The diver-operated microscope — called the Benthic Underwater Microscope imaging PAM, or BUMP — incorporates pulse amplitude ...

Storms aren’t new. They damage reefs and they always have. But the living protection reefs provide to Hawaiʻi’s shores hinges on their natural ability to heal and grow back. How To Recover ...

The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in Hawaii, an area popular with snorkelers and divers, is teeming with spiny creatures that threaten to push the coral reef “past the point of recovery ...

To offset erosion from urchins, at least 26% of the reef surface must be covered by living corals – and even more coral cover is necessary for it to grow. Gregory Asner, an ecologist at Arizona ...

Volcanic islands, such as the islands of Hawaii and the Caribbean, are surrounded by coral reefs that encircle an island in a labyrinthine, living ring. A coral reef is punctured at points by reef ...