Beneath the soft bodies of scleractinian, or stony corals, polyps secrete a calcium carbonate skeleton, and it is this skeleton that becomes the foundation of coral reef ecosystems. Coral colonies ...

The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is huge, stretching 2,900 km (1,800 miles). It’s filled with a wide variety of marine ...

Soft corals top hard ones, algae and sponges paint the rocks, and every crevice is a creature's home. The biology, like the reef, transforms from the north—where the reef began—to the south.

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) has announced the discovery of a new species of soft coral that belong ...

The reef is a teeming city of hard corals, soft corals, fire corals, lace corals, brain corals, staghorn corals, sea whips, sea fans, sea grapes, coralline algae, sponges. Taking refuge everywhere ...

A recent survey of some areas of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suggested that more than a third of the corals in the region might have died, leaving a marine graveyard behind. “The soft ...

The Coral Triangle is a marine region that spans those parts of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste with at least 500 species of reef-building ...

In previous reports, MoECC stated it completed the first phase of the coral reef protection and restoration ... during which it spotted five species of soft coral two in deep water and three ...

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) has announced the discovery of a new type of soft coral from ...

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels ...