Scientists say they have found the world's largest coral near the Pacific's Solomon Islands, announcing Thursday a major ...

It’s more than 100 feet long, around 300 years old, made of nearly 1 billion little polyps and visible from space ...

Red List assessments of cold-water corals, which are found in colder, deeper waters around the world and do not depend on ...

"Plankton are the lifeblood of the oceans, supporting the marine food web and carbon storage. If their existence is endangered, it will present an unprecedented threat, disrupting the whole marine ...

Exclusive photos reveal a sprawling, 300-year-old coral near Solomon Islands, recently discovered by the National Geographic ...

An endangered orca vanished from a dwindling whale pod off the Washington coast, a conservation group said. The missing ...

In 2008, the IUCN assessed 892 warm-water coral species and determined approximately one-third were at risk of extinction.

Rising temperatures are pushing many species to the brink, alongside disease, pollution and unsustainable fishing.

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Almost half of warm-water reef-building coral species are at risk of extinction, conservationists have warned after a global ...

Fossil fuel projects are putting the Pacific Coral Triangle’s unique marine ecosystem at risk, according to a new report presented Oct. 31 at the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity summit (COP 16 ...

They drift aimlessly at sea, soaking up sunlight from the sky and nutrients from the deep. Often invisible to the naked eye, ...