Researchers looked at decades of coral reef studies and found a previously unsuspected link between fishing of sharks, the behaviors of smaller fish and outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish.

Over three years, they didn’t detect a single baby coral from the genus Orbicella, a key reef-building variety that produces large, lumpy mounds. They found just one baby from the genus Acropora ...

On the Great Barrier Reef, bleaching is underway in the northernmost section. This is the sixth bleaching event on the Great ...

By Marco Lopez Rosie knows the Lighthouse Reef Atoll like the back of her fin. She calls this atoll home and is a matriarch ...