NOAA recently reported that the largest coral bleaching event on record is impacting 84% of the world’s reefs, including the ...

An international research team led by the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) with the participation of the ...

Support is growing to limit or ban boats and fishing at a "pretty special" reef off the Sunshine Coast, as authorities ...

The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in Hawaii, an area popular with snorkelers and divers, is teeming with spiny creatures ...

Scientists have uncovered that fish biofluorescence a captivating ability to glow in vivid colors has ancient roots stretching back over 100 million years. This trait evolved independently in reef ...

Dr. Maarten De Brauwer at Curtin University discovered hairy frogfish have fluorescent lures that glow orange under blue ...

The research maps biofluorescence across 459 glowing fish species and shows just how varied the colors have become.

Prochlorococcus, a genus of bacteria that’s key to oxygen production in the ocean, tends to disappear when faced with marine ...

Vietnam’s first marine protected area, Nha Trang Bay, has lost nearly 200 hectares (494 acres) of coral reef since its ...

A new competition was launched to develop innovative tools that can be used to cut and remove derelict fishing nets from the ...

Tropical coral reefs encrust the coastlines of islands and continents near Earth’s equator but this zone, which has offered ...

University of Rhode Island oceanographer Jaime Palter speaks out on what she thinks the impacts will be of cuts to federal ...