A fossilized coral reef in Ras Muhammad National Park near Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Because much of Egypt’s Red Sea coast is made up of such fossilized reefs, with very little topsoil, the living ...

The International Coral Reef Initiative, which works to protect the world’s coral, estimated that reefs support $2.7 trillion a year in goods and services, including tourism.

The study of Red Sea reefs offers a blueprint for effective reef conservation on a global scale. By unraveling the secrets of its resilience and developing conservation strategies, researchers may be ...

Exhibits will take visitors on an imagined journey through the Red Sea, through shallow mangroves and over sandy beaches, before culminating in a large manmade coral reef that has a length of 40 m ...

Israel’s bustling city of Eilat, at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba and Red Sea, is renowned for beaches, hotels and one of the world’s northernmost coral reefs. Magnificent, colorful, diverse ...

Saudi Gazette reportJEDDAH — The Great Reef, located approximately 24 km off the coast of Jeddah, represents an important reserve as a marine heritage of coral reefs in the heart of the Red Sea ...

Pachyseris inattesa sp. n. (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia): a new reef coral species from the Red Sea and its phylogenetic relationships. ZooKeys, 2014; 433: 1 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.433.8036 ...

Despite political tensions between countries along the Red Sea, researchers band together to call upon UNESCO to declare the Red Sea’s entire coral reef as a Marine World Heritage Site.

Researchers have discovered a giant coral colony on the north-western coast of Saudi Arabia, in a part of the Red Sea that is being developed as a luxury tourist resort.

As summer sea surface temperatures have remained about 1.5 degrees Celsius above ambient over the last 10 years, growth of the coral, Diploastrea heliopora, has declined by 30% and "could cease ...

More information: Elamurugu Alias Gokul et al, Remotely sensing coral bleaching in the Red Sea, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (2025). DOI: 10.1002/rse2.70000 ...

Their work revealed the shipwreck had fostered a robust and healthy coral reef that was home to species representing over 70 groups of plants and animals. These included giant moray eel, Red Sea ...