Coral reefs are vital to the health of the oceans, but in recent years they’ve been decimated by climate change, pollution, and overfishing. While this has been widely covered, a new documentary sheds ...

Volcanic islands, such as the islands of Hawaii and the Caribbean, are surrounded by coral reefs that encircle an island in a labyrinthine, living ring. A coral reef is punctured at points by reef ...

Pictured is a shallow reef flat channel on the atoll of Tetiaroa, located north of Tahiti in the Society Islands. MIT researchers have found evidence that island rivers may carve out paths in ...

What if you could plant a coral the way you plant a tree—and bring a dying reef back to life? That question became a calling for Sam Teicher, co-founder of Coral Vita, a company working to restore one ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Multiple reasons. They are home to a huge amount of biodiversity, which provides food ...

Remote and wild, Indonesia’s Raja Ampat region has been considered sacred by locals for centuries. New coral conservation voyages offer a unique perspective on its islands and reefs. Many reefs in ...

When Andrew Baker looks out at the vacant lot next to his office on Virginia Key, he doesn’t see the trees or grass that are there now. He sees a factory of the future. One story tall, roughly the ...

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. ―Dive shop owner Bill Cole leaned back in his captain’s chair, raised the volume on the Margaritaville radio station and watched six trails of bubbles trickle up through clear ...

A Dutch company dredged through a highly sensitive coral area for TotalEnergies’ liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique, satellite imagery and vessel traffic data confirm. The French oil and gas ...

Grunts swim past staghorn coral on a reef just outside Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Shireen Rahimi/For The Washington Post) The fate of one of the last thriving coral reefs in Florida ...