MIAMI — A new federal report found that a past dredging project at PortMiami caused serious damage to more than 278 acres of sensitive coral reef habitat along the port’s entrance channel. A local ...

If you’re familiar with the Texas coast, which isn’t exactly known for having crystal clear water, you probably never would have suspected that a mere 100 miles off Galveston is a 56-square-mile ...

His charges are a type of soft coral called gorgonians. "They're a fundamentally important part of the Caribbean and Floridian coral reef habitat," he says. Foord tends to more than 2,000 tiny soft ...

Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some coral were present off ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The National Marine Fisheries Service has proposed to protect more than 900 square miles in the western North Atlantic Ocean for the threatened Nassau grouper. The fish’s ...

Fort Fisher, North Carolina —Complete immersion in a coral reef at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher (NCAFF) happens frequently—it’s the awe-filled gaze and sense of peace that only comes ...

Seagrass meadows, rather than coral reefs, are the fishing grounds of choice for many fishing households in four countries in the Indo-Pacific region, a new study shows. Fishers in Cambodia, Tanzania, ...