To see Kokomo's Christmas trees, you have to dive into the South Pacific. These trees aren't decorated with tinsel or lights.

With nonstop flights between Seattle and Manila, Pacific Northwest explorers can venture abroad whenever inspiration strikes, ...

Abe Peck lives in Santa Barbara but is a professor emeritus in service at the Medill School of Journalism/Northwestern ...

Two key coral reefs in Florida are “functionally extinct” following the 2023 heatwave, warns a new scientific study.

The new study tallies how microbialites take carbon and turn it into fresh layers of calcium carbonate. These structures then ...

In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the ...

For deep reef divers, descending into the ocean’s mesophotic layer can feel like exploring the moon. Discovering never-before ...

South Africa is home to some of the oldest evidence of life on Earth, contained in rocky, often layered outcroppings called ...

A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) published in Coral Reefs reveals why many coral reef fishers remain in poverty, even as fish stocks decline and some fishers leave the profession ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — South Florida is seeing a wave of new cars, but they won't add to traffic or lengthen anyone's commute. That's because the cars are made of marine-grade concrete and were ...

Since the Ice Age, elkhorn and staghorn corals off Florida’s southern coast have been stacking their skeletons into elaborate, branching homes for parrotfish, eels and octopuses. “They’ve been the ...