Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

Soft coral diversity drops off below the arid horn of Africa, and though the Red Sea is wrapped in a garland of reefs, it has significantly fewer soft coral species.

On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given how much they've been studied, you'd think we've ...

New research has confirmed alarming coral mortality rates of 92 per cent after last year's bleaching event at Lizard Island ...

Tropical coral reefs encrust the coastlines of islands and continents near Earth’s equator but this zone, which has offered sufficient light and warmth for corals to evolve over hundreds of millions ...

This 2011 astronaut photo shows the atolls of Rowley Shoals lined up in a near-perfect line off the coast of Australia. The ...

Could so-called blue carbon be key to resolving some of Australia’s biggest environmental and cultural challenges?

The identity of the city today known as the Gold Coast took nearly a century to shape. This is the incredible story of how it ...

Scientists studied baby corals and found that some species stay very close to their parents while others travel huge ...

After a spell of relatively mild weather with a mix of snow and rain in the Australian ski resorts, heavy snow is expected in ...

The intricate, hidden processes that sustain coral life are being revealed through a new microscope developed by scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps ...

Forget the headlines and hyperbole of the fictitious "rain bomb" — the real weather bomb is possible along Australia's east ...