"I knew right from the minute we dropped in that it was something special," conservationist Sophie Kalkowski-Pope said.

Coral reefs are teeming with life: they are home to over a third of all marine animal and plant species on Earth, despite covering less than one percent of the ocean floor. However, this immense ...

Volunteer group Citizens of the Reef made the find as part of the Great Reef Census ...

I am a marine scientist in Hawaii. My colleagues and I are trying to understand how coral reefs might change in the future, and whether new coral reefs might form at higher latitudes as the tropics ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have identified hundreds of microbial species living among corals. These microbes produce a variety ...

Shorter food chains could mean reefs are less able to weather changes in food availability, threatening an already vulnerable ...

Nighttime drops in ocean oxygen raise energy use in small reef fish. Repeated stress could affect reef health as oceans warm.

Asian artist Mulyana 'shows the consequences of our activities, but it's definitely not all gloom and doom,' says museum ...

I am a marine scientist in Hawaii. My colleagues and I are trying to understand how coral reefs might change in the future, and whether new coral reefs might form at higher latitudes as the tropics ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Barrier Reef stretches for 1,429 miles just off Australia's northeastern coast. Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Noam Vogt-Vincent, University of Hawaii (THE CONVERSATION) Tropical reefs might look ...