Scientists will use the instrument to explore how climate change is affecting the ability of coral to survive.

While studying a remote, coral-covered island in the Mediterranean, scientists were shocked to discover that it has become ...

An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

Underwater heat ‘inferno’ ravages Mediterranean corals, turning them to skeletons Vibrant marine forests scorched to death in just months during heatwave, stripping sea of a crucial haven for ...

A Mediterranean rainbow wrasse (Coris julis) (L) and a white gorgonian (Eunicella singularis) are pictured on November 17, 2018 in the seabed of Grand Salaman near Marseille, southern France. Photo: ...

ANDRÉ FREIWALD, LYDIA BEUCK, ANDRES RÜGGEBERG, MARCO TAVIANI, DIERK HEBBELN, R/V METEOR CRUISE M70 - 1 PARTICIPANTS, The WHITE CORAL COMMUNITY in the Central Mediterranean Sea Revealed by ROV Surveys, ...

Without them, a coral reef can become dominated and overcome by algae. This story began two decades ago, when these sea urchins invaded from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what they could mean. Four years of underwater research revealed a lost world.

The black sea urchin is native to the Gulf of Eilat, but in 2006 began spreading into the Mediterranean, probably through the Suez Canal. Since 2018, the Mediterranean population has grown ...