SABINE PASS, Texas — On Thursday morning, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) dumped a concrete block into the Gulf of Mexico as part of the new artificial reef that is being built. The ...

These newly discovered reefs are potentially of global significance." Researchers stunned after uncovering 'significant' deep ...

Three-quarters of the world's oceans are still unmapped with much detail. But as our technology improves, researchers can see more and more of what's hidden beneath the inky depths. Such as, say, the ...

The loggerhead turtle population was on the brink of extinction but after 40 years of careful management, the largest ...

Although the shallow seas occupy 8 percent of the ocean’s surface, they are brimming with life including 90 percent of the world’s commercial fisheries. Most shallow seas occur along continental ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef hit their highest level in 400 years over the past decade, according to researchers who warned that the reef likely won’t survive if ...

Scientists mapped the largest deep-sea coral reef, which stretches over millions of acres off the Atlantic from Florida to South Carolina and is bigger than Vermont, according to the news release. "It ...

As coral reefs struggle to adapt to warming waters, high levels of pollution and sea-level rise, ballooning sea-urchin populations are threatening to push some reefs in Hawaii past the point of ...

Jody Webster receives funding from the Australian Research Council and ANZIC IODP. Juan Carlos Braga receives funding from the Australian Research Council and Spanish Government. Marc Humblet receives ...