On occasion, it is of vital importance to consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral ...

It is of vital importance to, on occasion, consider how little we know about the spinning rock we all live on. Take coral reefs, for example. Given ...

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.

These projects, if they proceed, will weaken Australia’s efforts to reach its emission reduction goals. Their overall climate impact is truly frightening.

Photo courtesy of Lahiru Walpita Sri Lanka stands at a critical juncture. Emerging from economic turmoil and the long shadow ...

By almost every measure, the coral in Tela Bay should be dead. Yet despite decades of pollution, industrial degradation, and heat waves that have decimated other reefs in the region, this reef on ...

Simulation results indicate that reduced coral reef calcification due to ocean acidification could increase the ocean's carbon uptake by 1–5% by 2100 and up to 13% by 2300.

A healthy coral reef in American Samoa, left, experiencing coral bleaching due to a severe marine heatwave, center, and eventually dying, right. The Ocean Agency and Ocean Image Bank., CC BY-NC.

A report released this week paints a bleak picture of the condition of the world's coral reefs. And it names global warming as the culprit behind much of the damage. Only two years after a survey ...

Banner image: A coral reef around Nukuoro Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia, where microbial-based monitoring is undertaken to assess reef health. Image courtesy of Alyson Santoro/WHOI.

Critics fear oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon River is a step backwards from Lula’s ‘zero emissions’ goal.