The Coral Sea, part of the U.S. 7th Fleet’s Task Force 77, was positioned at Yankee Station, an area of the South China Sea where the Navy launched attacks on North Vietnamese targets.

Tropical coral reefs encrust the coastlines of islands and continents near Earth’s equator but this zone, which has offered sufficient light and warmth for corals to evolve over hundreds of millions ...

UNAWATUNA, Sri Lanka — Just a thousand feet offshore from this beachside town lies what should be a wondrous underwater world of color and activity, a realm of angelfish, gobies and other ...

Deep-sea mining has been approved for testing in the Pacific Ocean by the International Seabed Authority for the first time since the 1970s. The move has drawn widespread condemnation from ...

Near-annual extreme heat in the Coral Sea, including in 2024, is causing back-to-back mass bleaching events in the iconic Great Barrier Reef. ... It’s the coral in the coal mine. ...

Normally, deep-sea reefs have a relatively low proportion of coral coverage, about 10-20%, per the news release. But this system stands out for its particular vigor: an estimated 50-60% live coral ...

A Desperate Push to Save Florida’s Coral: Get It Out of the Sea. ... “You talk about canaries in the coal mine,” he said. “These canaries have been dying now for 40 years. ...

How scientists take 400-year-old samples of coral. When the team set out on their study, they only had temperature records from the Coral Sea around the reef going back to 1900.