Google has added coral reef panoramas to its Street View maps service. The internet giant teamed up with ocean conservationists Catlin Seaview Survey to map out reefs near Australia, Hawaii, the ...

Why do people care about coral reefs? Why does their damage cause such concern and outrage? What drives people to go to great ...

31 different multibeam sonar surveys led researchers to discover the extent of a deep-sea coral reef off the southeastern U.S. – the largest ever found.

A towering coral reef has emerged from the depths of Australia’s northern waters, reshaping what scientists thought they knew ...

The Great Barrier Reef, the world's biggest coral reef system on the north-east coast, is rightly recognised as a Unesco ...

Crackling shrimp sounds at night are helping scientists uncover which coral reefs are recovering - and which ones are in ...

Coral reefs provide more than food. They also provide protection against tropical storms by dissipating the energy and height of ocean waves. Watch this fascinating video exploring how USGS ...

Porter, a UGA professor emeritus with the Odum School of Ecology, is an authority on coral reefs and is known by ecologist worldwide. He has been widely honored by his peers in his field for which ...

Climate change is heating oceans faster than the world's coral reefs can handle. So scientists are breeding corals that can withstand hotter temperatures – but only to a point.

Dying coral Snorkeling the coral reefs off the Florida Keys in the 1960s and 1970s was like swimming through a kaleidoscope, with colorful algae living among roughly 30 coral species covering the ...