We had discovered something more valuable than a gold mine. Thousands of corals ... led to developing Sur Ridge into a singular deep-sea coral observatory: ocean currents are measured at fine ...

A new report says the expansion of nickel mining in Indonesia is a threat to one of Earth's most biodiverse marine regions.

the framework of the coral reef is filled with sediment and cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed to corrosive rainwater that dissolves the unstable ...

It is literally losing ground as its 33 coral atolls and islands are being destroyed by rising sea levels and extreme weather events like floods, earthquakes and tropical cyclones. Much of ...