Dive into a world full of color and life — coral reefs thriving beneath the waves, home to countless creatures in perfect ...

Coiled in self-defence, this armoured creature – the armadillo girdled lizard – turns its body into a formidable fortress to ...

A robotic assistant called the Deployment Guidance System (DGS) scans the seafloor and determines the best place for a coral ...

Did you know that coral reefs are vital to the survival of our ecosystem? And did you also know that reefs can be found as deep as 8000 meters in the ocean? As deep as they are, those reefs are still ...

Find out what reef safe sunscreen is, why it matters for coral reefs, and which mineral ingredients keep your skin and the ...

Nations voted today to adopt landmark protections for heavily traded golden sandfish sea cucumbers. But they failed to protect six sea cucumber species in the genus Actinopyga, despite their key role ...

“Symbolic gifts, such as the digital adoption of a wild animal or a tiny patch of a landscape, can make a wonderful holiday ...

Here's the uncomfortable truth: some of the most popular tourist activities are environmental disasters disguised as harmless ...

A massive, multi-year scientific expedition led by researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara and collaborating institutions, including the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa, ...

Rising ocean acidity weakens corals, boosts algae and makes reefs flatter. Even small chemical changes reshape reef life.

This year’s Conference of the Parties, the annual United Nations meeting meant to avert catastrophic climate change, was ...