Coral reefs are pivotal for the sustenance of life but an NGO's well-meaning effort to create an artificial reef in the late ...

Coral reefs are underwater ecosystems that form in tropical waters. Corals are made up of tiny living organisms called coral polyps, which attach themselves to the sea floor. When polyps die ...

The Great Barrier Reef, a global treasure and the largest coral reef system on Earth, has suffered its most widespread coral ...

“Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet.” Corals are marine invertebrates that live in communities of hundreds to thousands of identical, individual soft-bodied polyps. Each ...

Researchers from University of Queensland have discovered that corals need to be within 10 meters of each other to reproduce ...

From the tiny basement of the Horniman Museum, Dr Jamie Craggs’ innovative new technique aims to protect these ecosystems ...

Our Planet, the incredible new documentary series narrated by Sir David Attenborough, explores the beauty of life on Earth and highlights the threats that we pose to it. In the coastal seas episode, ...

Scientists were stunned when they discovered that a shipwreck shadow they thought they had spotted under their boat last ...

Coral reefs are made up of colonies of hundreds to thousands of tiny individual corals, called polyps. These marine invertebrate animals have hard exoskeletons made of calcium carbonate, and are ...

Other than encounters with colourful coral reefs while snorkelling in places like the Red Sea in Egypt, you may wonder what ...

tiny animals called polyps Sarah Kuta From the busy cities to ocean waters, our need to illuminate the world has had some strange and tragic consequences Brian Handwerk A new “health check ...

The Great Barrier Reef, one of the natural wonders of the world and a UNESCO World Heritage site, is facing a crisis that ...