Build all the flood walls you want: Nature already found the best way to protect from growing storm surges and climate change. Bonus: They’re also cheaper. As coastal cities prepare for rising waters, ...

At Scripps Institution of Oceanography, studying the effects of waves and currents in the formation of a coral reef doesn’t require getting wet. A new garden in front of the Eckart Building mimics a ...

While rabbits continue to ravage Australia’s native landscapes, rabbit fish may help save large areas of the Great Barrier Reef from destruction. The reason, say scientists, is the same in both cases ...

Marine scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have linked the decline in growth of Caribbean forereef corals — due to recent warming — to long-term trends in seawater ...