A vote this week could reinstate shrimp trawling for the first time in decades in a protected area off the coast of Fort ...

A federal council is preparing to make a critical decision about whether to reopen parts of the Oculina Bank, one of the ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Beneath the surface of the Atlantic, about 15 miles off the coast of Fort Pierce, lies one of the most unique coral reefs in the world — and one of the most fragile. Known as the ...

It's a delicate spectacle called the coral spawn - a once-a-year phenomenon when Florida's reef-building coral colonies simultaneously release tiny bundles of eggs and sperm. They float to the surface ...

The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council moves forward on reopening the Oculina Bank coral reef. The council will host public meetings before making a formal decision. The Oculina Bank, named ...

ROME (Reuters) -A large white coral reef containing important species and fossil traces has been discovered at a depth of more than 500 metres in the Gulf of Naples, in a rare discovery for the ...

‘Our sea deserves a future’: The fishermen battling to save rare corals on the Costa Brava from climate change - IN DEPTH: Rising sea temperatures brought on by pollution are decimating the rich ...

Heat-hardy corals off the coast of Broward County escaped a mass bleaching event two years back that devastated much of South Florida’s reef tract. They couldn’t take the heat this summer. Earlier ...

University of Sydney marine biologists have identified a devastating combination of coral bleaching and a rare necrotic wasting disease that wiped out large, long-lived corals on the Great Barrier ...

Beneath a cloak of darkness, illuminated only by glow sticks and red-filtered flashlights, researchers waited underwater off Key Largo hoping to witness one of the rarest events of sex in the sea.