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 ...

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 ...

Until relatively recently, global maps of coral reefs hadn’t changed significantly from the maps produced by Charles Darwin in 1842. Darwin based his historic maps on observations from his ...

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 ...

Coral reef conservation needs to take an equitable approach and include local impacted communities in decision-making and ...

Coral reefs provide more than food. They also provide protection against tropical storms by dissipating the energy and height ...

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 ...

A year after the worst coral bleaching ever recorded, Florida's reefs are slowly recovering. Despite elevated ocean temperatures, scientists say this summer they didn’t see significant bleaching.