A video uploaded by a scuba diver on Tuesday shows the anchor of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship destroying a protected coral reef off of Grand Cayman. A shocking video posted to YouTube on Tuesday ...

This video shows the Island of Moorea, Society Islands, French Polynesia, where lush volcanic mountains rise beside a brilliant turquoise lagoon protected by a long coral reef. From above, the barrier ...

This breathtaking underwater footage captures a sea turtle gliding effortlessly through a vibrant coral reef, offering a ...

Coral reefs are one of the oldest types of living systems on Earth and the variety of life they support rivals that of the tropical forests of the Amazon or New Guinea. In the tropical Pacific, for ...

This story was co-published with Grist as part of their Proof of Concept video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most surprising research. While the Gulf of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Scuba diving may be causing more harm to coral reefs than many divers realize, and much of that contact ...

The structural complexity of coral reefs creates a vibrant underwater city populated by a diverse assortment of characters. Ironically, this same complexity can impede coral recovery after ...

Over the past twenty years, coral reef restoration has seen unprecedented growth worldwide. From Indonesia to the Caribbean, thousands of projects have been launched with the goal of "saving" coral ...

A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover. But in our new research, we show this might not be the ...