The legendary broadcaster has spent his life documenting the world’s most impressive natural spectacles — from his first ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “I just got a whiff,” said Peter Harrison, a marine scientist, as he leaned over the ...

His charges are a type of soft coral called gorgonians. "They're a fundamentally important part of the Caribbean and Floridian coral reef habitat," he says. Foord tends to more than 2,000 tiny soft ...

Parts of Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, famed for its stunning colors and biodiversity, suffered the biggest decline of coral on record last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast swathes ...

SYDNEY, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered the largest decline in coral cover in two of its three regions over the last year, research released on Wednesday showed, ...

Charles Darwin described the Belize Barrier Reef, a complex system of coral reefs, atolls and cayes spanning 300 kilometers (186 miles) and cradling the nation’s coast, as “the most remarkable reef in ...

In June 2024, a team of divers sank a curious assortment of 24 sculptures off the northern coast of Bali. The sculptures look like works of art—and in many ways they are. But they are also memorial ...

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals. From food security to controlling seaweed and even making ...

The Mesoamerican Reef, the longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere, stretches 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) along the Caribbean coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. The latest ...

Like a gardener surveying his veggie patch, Alan Wallish tells me the cabbages are running amok again: “They’ve become so dense. We really need a cyclone to come through and break them up so new ...

A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and disease. It could be used to restore dying Caribbean reefs—if scientists can figure out how it survived. Despite being exposed to decades of ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faces critical danger from back-to-back bouts of extreme ocean heat. Ocean heat in the Coral Sea is at its highest in four centuries, scientists report in the Aug. 8 ...