The Ancient Foundation - A Story Spanning Hundreds of Millennia The Great Barrier Reef story begins much earlier than most ...

While climate change is heating up oceans, the corals in the Lakshadweep archipelago in India are disappearing fast. Urgent ...

Discovered by National Geographic's Manu San Félix, this 500-year-old coral the size of half a football field is changing how ...

Every October, Blue Bay in southeastern Mauritius, named for its enticing waters, takes on a pinkish hue. The cause: corals ...

The luxury of a vacation on these islands makes pitching in with a little voluntourism feel like no biggie. On a prior trip to the Maldives, coral restoration had been my favorite activity. So on the ...

Two of Florida’s Acropora reef-building coral species had become functionally extinct across Florida’s coral reef.

There is a reason we call ourselves the Blue Planet.

In early June 2023, the coral reefs in the lower Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas were stunning. We were in diving gear, ...

Florida’s acroporids have joined the ranks of the California condor – they cannot recover without help. But unlike the condor ...

Discover the National Marine Sanctuary System — 18 underwater parks protecting coral reefs, shipwrecks, whales, and America’s ...

A record-breaking marine heat wave in 2023 left two ecologically vital coral species "functionally extinct" in Florida's ...

“What we saw happen was an extreme heat wave where conditions surpassed the thresholds of survival of a whole, entire species ...