Support is growing to limit or ban boats and fishing at a "pretty special" reef off the Sunshine Coast, as authorities ...

Inside the daring plan to map every coral reef from space. To build the groundbreaking monitoring system, ... “It is just mind-blowing that we’re able to now do this,” Phinn says.

An alfonsino fish swims above Lophelia pertusa coral off the southeastern coast of the U.S., in June 2019. Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, off the U.S. Atlantic Coast.

The result is a high-resolution map that gives fresh insight into the distribution of reefs. The Allen Coral Atlas initiative has identified approximately 348,000 square kilometers of shallow ...

A new AI-based system allows coral reefs to be 3D-mapped faster and easier than ever before. It could prove integral to saving threatened reefs, by letting scientists study them both onsite and at ...

Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some coral were present ...

A map showing the topography of the Stetson Mesa north region of the Million Mounds, an important habitat supporting a diversity of marine life. Credit: NOAA Scientists recently discovered the largest ...

Shallow coral reefs cover about 348,000 square kilometers (or about 134,000 square miles) of the globe’s surface — an area larger than the state of New Mexico.

For example, a biology student working on their thesis about Coral Reef Ecosystem Decline might upload research papers and see a mind map of “Ocean Acidification,” “Rising Sea Temperatures ...

Coral reefs in Florida have lost an estimated 90% of their corals in the last 40 years. And this summer, a record hot marine heat wave hit Florida's coral reefs, exacerbating that problem.

Large bommies made of a stony coral known as porites underpin the World Heritage reef system. It's hoped they can help scientists predict how a warming world will affect the reef's health.

The world’s coral reefs are becoming a checkerboard where the history of recent bleaching and its recurrence are changing the condition of those reefs. A reef that’s lucky might not have ...