A mother-and-daughter team of citizen scientists has identified the world’s largest known coral colony, found on the Great ...

"I knew right from the minute we dropped in that it was something special," conservationist Sophie Kalkowski-Pope said.

Scientists have confirmed a single coral colony in the Solomon Islands that stretches 34 meters wide and 32 meters long, ...

National Geographic scientists recently discovered the world's largest coral colony in the southwest Pacific Ocean, deemed the "mega" coral. The National Geographic Society's Pristine Seas team ...

In ordinary circumstances coral reefs are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, built slowly by animals that appear ...

Coral reefs around the world are experiencing a mass bleaching event as the climate crisis drives record-breaking ocean heat, two scientific bodies announced Monday - with some experts warning this ...

Half the world’s coral reefs were hit hard by extreme ocean heat, and an even more severe bleaching crisis is happening right ...

It’s more than 100 feet long, at least 300 years old and visible from space. The world’s largest coral has just been discovered in the southwest Pacific Ocean, scientists announced Wednesday. The mega ...

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The ...

Four hours off the Swedish coast, the R/V Skagerak dropped its robotic submarine into the North Sea. Rhian Waller, the research cruise’s lead scientist, and Alice Baker, her artist collaborator, ...

Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean's reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative announced ...