He postulated that fringing reefs develop close to the shoreline in shallow waters around volcanic islands (Figure 6). As a volcanic island begins to subside into the ocean over geological time ...

It always feels great to get back to my old stomping grounds! I grew up near this river where you can find absolutely ...

Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas, and are threatened by factors including ocean acidification, global warming and sea level rise.

“Climate change poses an imminent threat to the world’s shallow-water coral reefs,” Julia Baum, a biologist at the University of Victoria who was not involved in this study, tells The Atlantic. “As ...

Scientists from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the National Center for ...

Using a robust methodology coral reef scientists identified the 50 coral reef complexes that are most resilient to the impacts of climate change (Bayer et al 2018) and which, if conserved, have the ...

Teahupo’o has a reputation as having some of the heaviest waves in the world, which have a unique form due to a shallow coral reef. It's also renowned for the consistent number of barrels it provides.