Scientists have developed an autonomous underwater robot that can locate and map biodiversity hotspots ...

Researchers in the United States have developed an autonomous underwater robot that can listen to coral reefs, track marine ...

Somewhere in the western Pacific, on reefs near New Caledonia sampled during the Tara Pacific expedition, a fist-sized colony ...

Whirring over a sun-streaked patch of tropical seafloor, a submersible equipped with cameras is helping to provide the most detailed maps ever recorded of underwater shelves and struggling coral reefs ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some coral ...

Beneath the beauty of coral reefs lies a hidden universe of microbes unlike anything scientists expected. Each coral species ...

The world’s coral reefs are close to 25% larger than we thought. By using satellite images, machine learning and on-ground knowledge from a global network of people living and working on coral reefs, ...

SAN DIEGO — Cliff Kapono, a professional surfer with a PhD in chemistry, is leveraging his dual expertise to address a critical gap in ocean conservation: the world's coral reefs remain largely ...

Over 1,000 previously unmapped coral reefs have been discovered stretching across northern Australia, with scientists identifying the massive marine habitats without leaving the office. Led by the ...

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 ...

This is a challenging time for coral reefs. Although they cover less than 0.1% of the ocean floor, coral reefs support 25% of all marine creatures. Collectively, they form one of the planet’s most ...

Washington — Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some coral ...