Coral reefs

Google has taken its ‘street view’ maps to a whole new level—namely, the ocean's depths. Already, scientists have collected 400,000 panoramic photos of coral reefs and other marine marvels off the coast of Australia and in the Caribbean, some of which viewers can access on Google Maps.

China's coastal economic boom is burning out its marine food resources

These researchers and educators can teach you more about sharks as the fascinating, ecologically important and threatened multiple species that they are

Is the planet undergoing the sixth mass extinction in its history courtesy of the human species?

Reef-building in skeletal animals appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than previously thought, as far back as 548 million years ago

Local stressors have have caused more than 50 percent of the decline in Caribbean coral cover since the 1970s

Scientists have long thought of the Cambrian Explosion 541 million years ago as the flowering of complex life on Earth. Strangely shaped, large soft-bodied organisms were known to have lived in the period just prior — the Ediacaran — but they made few hard parts and scientists have debated whether any or how many were [...]

The A-list actor is promoting a proposed billionaire’s playground in Puerto Azul, complete with a private airport and racetrack, that could endanger the marine habitat

The publication of the draft genetic sequence of a comb jelly reveals a nervous system like no other

Dive into the limpid waters off Indonesia's resort island of Bali and you'll spot the beginnings of an environmental success story. Older reefs are recovering from the devastating coral bleaching of 1998 and 2009.