Using satellite technology and sophisticated machine learning, a team led by marine experts in Australia have created new maps of the world’s coral reefs. The scientists discovered there are ...

From each of these vantage points, researchers can visualize key spatial relationships, including the location of reefs and human ... lives are deeply entwined with the reefs, the study’s GIS maps ...

Tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, but these colorful seascapes are built by tiny jellyfish-like animals called ...

The ocean may be nature’s single greatest gift to humanity. It provides about half of the oxygen we breathe, feeds billions ...

project and outreach manager for the Global Conservation Science program with the Coral Reef Alliance, told Space.com. "Certain areas had more resources and maps and other areas that were least ...

After a disastrous year for coral reefs in which abnormally high ocean ... but until we had a complete map of the region, we didn't know how extensive this habitat was, nor how many of these ...

Currently, in order to obtain a 3D point cloud map of a coral reef, specially trained divers have to move around a section of that reef taking hundreds of photos from many angles. A considerable ...

As world leaders gather to address a global marine crisis at the UN Ocean Conference, scientists from the Woods Hole ...

As warmer waters and ocean acidification reduce coral formation, the seas will take up more carbon dioxide – an effect that ...

These coral reefs suffered major damage. Watch how restoration efforts helped bring them back Coral reefs offer crucial habitat for marine creatures and protection for coastal communities ...

A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and disease. It could be used to restore dying Caribbean reefs—if scientists can figure out how it survived. Despite being exposed to ...

World Reef Awareness Day 2025 highlights the coral reef crisis and the urgent need for global conservation action.