Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists say they have found the world's largest coral near the Pacific's Solomon Islands, announcing Thursday a major discovery ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coral reefs are highly sensitive to changing conditions in the oceans and global warming poses the greatest threat to these ...

A mother-and-daughter team of citizen scientists has identified the world’s largest known coral colony, found on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. It spans about 111 meters (364 feet) ...

A new study finds that more than 70 percent of these protected zones are exposed to high levels of wastewater pollutants, ...

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, ...

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 ...

HONG KONG — For at least three centuries, it grew in secret on the seabed of the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. But ...

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 ...

Scientists say they have found the world's largest coral near the Pacific's Solomon Islands, announcing Thursday a major discovery "pulsing with life and color." The coral is so immense that ...