Healthy coral reefs provide their adjacent coasts with substantially more protection from destructive tsunami waves than do unhealthy or dead reefs, a Princeton University study suggests. Initially ...

Healthy marine ecosystems are essential for human well-being, and millions of people around the world rely on coral reefs for food, protection, recreation, medicine, cultural connection and economic ...

CAMERON PARISH, La. (LSU AgCenter) - Right past the dock on Calcasieu Lake, Megan La Peyre stared at an ominous rain cloud she and her team were driving straight into. On this boat, La Peyre, an ...

Coral reefs around the world are rapidly declining due to various natural and anthropogenic factors, including climate change, overfishing, pollution, and coastal development. Scientists estimate that ...

DESTIN, Fla. (WKRG) — More living shorelines and artificial reefs are popping up in Northwest Florida. The Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance (CBA) installed part of a new oyster reef this week in the bay ...

Dozens of high school students and other volunteers spent Friday morning stuffing recycled oyster shells into mesh bags — the first step in a plan to create a "living reef" to fight land loss along ...

Florida’s iconic reef tract has not vanished in its entirety, but its architectural backbone has effectively collapsed. The key reef-building corals that once formed a living storm wall along the ...

While world leaders dither about how to tackle climate change, an eerie echo of global warming’s destructive power has been playing out in a project created as an artistic response to this apocalypse.