I went diving in a place where the map said there was a shipwreck and then I saw something,” said the cinematographer who made the stunning discovery.

The massive coral is not a coral reef, structures that can be far larger but are comprised of many distinct coral colonies, they explained. "While Big Momma looked like a huge scoop of ice cream ...

Coral reefs protect coastlines from strong currents, waves and tropical storms, and reef fish feed local populations with a valuable source of protein. There are many threats to the biodiversity ...

A study of samples taken from inside the bodies of centuries-old coral has revealed the threat climate change now poses to the Great Barrier Reef. Researchers in Australia say temperatures in and ...

A staggering 77% of the world’s coral reef areas — from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Indian oceans — have so far been subjected to bleaching-level heat stress, according to ...