Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to ...

The US military is a major interest in this new extractive industry, which is poised to emerge both off- and on-shore. Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Order Will Likely Impact Gulf Coast States, Biodiversity ...

An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

With the backing of the US government, a Canadian company is poised to sidestep UN laws and start vacuuming what it deems battery-grade metals from international waters.

Traditionally seen as a honeymoon destination, Richard Hartley-Parkinson took his kids to the Maldives and learned there's ...

"Their presence is highly sensitive to environmental changes. If the coral reefs are damaged or polluted, the population of ...

For people who are not experts, what are the signs of a collapsing reef system? Firstly, less color, because there’s less ...

With colors that blend into the bright coral of the reef, it’s just waiting for the opportunity to use its sharp teeth to catch prey. The animal is a lizardfish, part of the fish family Synodontidae, ...

Dr. Maarten De Brauwer at Curtin University discovered hairy frogfish have fluorescent lures that glow orange under blue ...

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...