Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is a true natural wonder: a unique and diverse underwater seascape the size of a small country. However, cycles of disturbance and recovery threaten to turn its ...

Carpet sharks range from tiny reef-dwellers that walk on their fins to the largest fish on Earth, and they all belong to the same surprisingly varied order. Meet the bizarre, camouflaged, and ...

Sunscreen is essential for protecting your skin from the sun’s harmful rays, but not all formulas are kind to the planet. More and more, we’re seeing the impact that common chemicals have on delicate ...

Parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef have been spared further heat stress after a late summer monsoon brought much-needed cooling to the world-famous coral reef off the country's east coast.

The world's largest coral reef system stretches more than 1,400 miles off the northeastern coast of Australia.

A deep-ocean coral reef presumed dead for nearly 60 years off the coast of Benin was recently rediscovered and is teeming with life. A team of oceanographers led by Gérard Zinzindohoué at the Institut ...

Three years after a devastating marine heat wave in Florida, scientists say they are better prepared to protect vulnerable ...

Coral reef fish do not arrive at their nursery habitats fully developed. A surgeonfish drifts at sea for about 53 days as a ...

A late-summer monsoon in 2026 brought the Great Barrier Reef a reprieve from unfolding coral bleaching, aiding its initial recovery from recent climate-induced disturbances, according to the ...

For easy application, a spray sunscreen is ideal. It’s also good for applying sunscreen to hard-to-reach spots like your back ...

Scientists found tiny reef fish resting safely inside Christmas tree worms, revealing a surprising coral reef relationship that needs study.

An isolated wonder some 1,200 miles from the nearest city, Montgomery Reef disappears as quickly as it appears, mirroring the supposed vanishing of its original owners, a tribe of Indigenous giants ...