Coral tourism involves a lot of water activities and touring the beaches. Keeping these in mind, as tourists, there are ...

Abraham “Snake” Ah Hee rides waves when the surf’s up and dives for octopus and shells when ... like this.” Coral reefs are sometimes called the “rainforests of the sea” because ...

The coral was sick. And this paste might help ... skeletons made of calcium carbonate — the same material found in sea shells — which forms the hard structure of the reef.

Archaeologists are trying to ascertain whether the delicate — and expensive, for the time — coral branches used in the display came from the Mediterranean or the Red Sea (the nearest and most ...

above the algae-covered coral they commonly graze on. Their gentle disposition disappears, however, in the presence of another favorite food: sea anemones. When feeding, the butterflyfish turn ...

Sea temperatures in some of these areas are more typical of July. In 2023, a severe coral bleaching event in Florida led to such significant coral mortality that NOAA was forced to extend their ...

The study relied on reef sediment cores: tubes of material extracted from the seafloor that contain layers of coral, sea shells, and animal remains. Those cores allowed researchers to see how fast ...

Photograph by Adam Dean, National Geographic Poachers in the South China Sea use their boats' propellers to break up the coral that encases giant clam shells. It leaves reefs broken and barren.

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. The colony, a feature ...