This sea turtle swims among colorful coral reefs in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Coral areas provide food and shelter for marine life. Fish and reefs fill the clear blue water.

Human activity has lessened the resilience of modern coral reefs by restricting the food-fueled energy flow that moves ...

Tumbling backwards off the side of our tender, we plunge into an inky ocean. It’s just past dusk and the orange sunset is quickly fading as we release air out of our buoyancy vests and sink into the ...

I just got a whiff,” said Peter Harrison, a marine scientist, as he leaned over the edge of the boat and pointed his ...

Meet Sint Eustatius, aka Statia, the small but gorgeous Caribbean island known as the "Pompeii of the New World." ...

Good morning,” Walter Borbor, a social media-famous fisher, says to his followers in a 2022 Instagram video. “What we have ...

On the way to the reef off Fiji’s Malolo Island, speeding on water so clear and so blue it might be made of topaz, Jerome Mafutuna explains why he became a marine biologist.

The administration has argued the U.S. fishing industry is hampered by overregulation compared with foreign competitors.

Royal Caribbean plans to build a massive water park private destination in Mahahual, a small town on Mexico's coast, cbut the ...

Nestled where the desert hills meet the Egyptian Red Sea near El Quseir, the Open Ocean Field Station is the base for a science-led, community-connected ...

Astove is one of the most southerly of the 72 uninhabited atolls and cays that make up the Outer Islands of the Seychelles. It is flung 1,000 kilometres – and two plane rides – southwest of the ...

In Cape Verde, conservation has boosted the sea turtle population 100-fold — but the male-female balance is way off.