On the morning of May 7, 1942, a Japanese scout aircraft reported a sighting of U.S. carriers in the Coral Sea, prompting an ...

It’s 1942, and Japan is on a mission to dominate the Pacific, zeroing in on Tulagi and Port Moresby as key footholds. With a ...

Officials reminded citizens "always carry a distress beacon while on the water." Three people were rescued from the Coral Sea after "multiple shark attacks" damaged their catamaran. Following an alert ...

Under the cover of night Wednesday, maritime authorities in Australia recued a sailing party after several shark attacks damaged their sinking catamaran drifting in the Coral Sea, officials said. An ...

Scientists say that coral reefs are currently undergoing a global bleaching event, with more than 54% of the world’s coral reef areas in the territorial waters of over 50 countries experiencing heat ...

Saturday is World Reef Awareness Day, and many of my colleagues and I are calling for President Joe Biden to protect the deep-sea coral treasures of the Southeast — the more than 80,000 coral mounds ...

Three-quarters of the world's oceans are still unmapped with much detail. But as our technology improves, researchers can see more and more of what's hidden beneath the inky depths. Such as, say, the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Although the humble sea cucumber may not look like much, it could soon be recruited to help save the world's coral reefs. The bottom-dwelling animals have been found to play a vital role in protecting ...

The Coral Triangle is an extremely biodiverse patch of ocean around the Philippines and Papua New Guinea. Its relatively ...

An exceptional "dual feeding" strategy underlies a Mediterranean coral's resilience to rising sea temperatures, according to ...

Coral species thrives in the Mediterranean by eating differently when waters heat up - a discovery that could guide reef ...