The withdrawal of the Philippine coast guard cutter BRP Teresa Magbanua from Sabina Shoal highlights rising tensions in the South China Sea, where China and the Philippines assert conflicting ...

Analysis of nitrogen isotopes by a team lead by the max Planck Institute for Chemistry provides evidence of the earliest ...

Many visitors say the Great Barrier Reef is best seen through a scuba mask, but it's no small feat to traverse the area's dive spots. When choosing which regions to explore, consider your skill level, ...

This past spring, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the world was undergoing a "global coral ...

An excavator is used to drag a shipping container onto the beach in the village of Mulivai Safata, Samoa, on Monday, Oct. 21, ...

Several Pacific island nations singled out Australia to do more to phase out fossil fuel exports during the Commonwealth ...

After long-extinct corals from Africa and Germany were unearthed, a research team led by the Max Planck Institute for ...

Healthy coral reefs echo with a chorus of grunts and purrs from fish feeding, looking for mates, or defending their territories, underscored by the persistent crackling of snapping shrimp. Larval ...

A proposed rule from NOAA Fisheries would bar fishermen from trawling the ocean floor at a California marine sanctuary to ...

Coral reefs worldwide are in trouble. These ecosystems support a billion people and more than a quarter of marine species.

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