What changing climate means for corals Looking ahead, climate patterns like ENSO are expected to change as the planet warms, but by studying how these climate patterns affected corals in the past, ...

Learn how a dramatic climate shift in the Pacific may have wiped out an entire underwater ecosystem deep below the Galápagos — and it could happen again. Deep beneath the Galápagos, an entire coral ...

Spain’s coastal caves could offer a lifeline to coral threatened by climate change. Corals growing inside the submarine ...

A “bubblegum” coral grew into giant branching colonies 2,200 feet below the Pacific without relying on a rigid skeleton, and ...

A team of scientists from Ireland have laid artificial reefs deep underwater to help coral recover after decades of being pulverised by bottom-trawling fishing ships.

Join a livestream from an expedition to advance mesophotic and deep coral restoration. Throughout an upcoming expedition to restore deep-sea corals, NOAA and our partners will host public livestreams ...

In April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, and the ensuing blowout spewed oil for the next three months, making it the largest oil spill in U.S. history. The oil ...

From the tip of Miami to North Carolina, the deep seafloor is comprised of hundreds of miles of rugged peaks, ledges, and mounds, which are scoured and swept clean of sediment by the ever-present, ...

A new deep-sea coral species in the tropical western Pacific that resembles a highly recognizable character from Star Wars has been discovered and named by a team of researchers including an expert ...

A small team of ichthyologists at the California Academy of Sciences has discovered a new species of damselfish living off the shores of the Maldives. In their paper published in the journal ZooKeys, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Scientists are conducting a pioneering large-scale deep-sea coral restoration in the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, ...