It’s unfair, really, that the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia, has the word “great” in its name; most travelers don’t even realize the Land Down Under has another world-class ...

Part of the Capricorn and Bunker Group, a cluster of coral cays and reefs on the southern fringe of the Great Barrier Reef, Lady Musgrave Island is one of the reef's best-kept secrets.

Because the hybrid reef will be closer to shore in shallower water than coral on Florida’s fringe reef, the transplanted corals will need to be able to withstand more light and rougher waves.

Fringe reefs occur as a narrow band along the coastline. The Red Sea has the longest single reef on the globe at over 2,500 miles. Barrier reefs follow the coast but exist farther out to sea ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has a silent, largely unheralded protector: salt marshes. These muddy patches just inland from ...

Coralline algae contribute to reef growth, specifically the kind of massive flat reefs that fringe most of the tropical reef systems of the world. The study focused on two areas ...

The mangroves of the Mesoamerican Reef were once at the fringe of the ancient Maya civilization. I contemplated slipping a souvenir into my pocket—with such a lode here, ...