A coral called Lophelia pertusa has been found growing on buoys left at the Darwin Mounds eight years ago New growths of a rare cold water coral have been discovered for the first time at a deep ...

They worry that this new gold rush will do untold damage to the ocean's food web and other complex natural systems. What mountaintop-removal coal mining has done in Appalachia, deep-sea mining has the ...

Maritime assessment in March shows coral reefs on Pag-asa Island severely degraded, with debris around the area indicating ...

“This muddy flow from mining clouds, waters, smothers coral reefs, displaces the animals that can leave the area, and generally endangers the nature that local biodiversity and communities ...

Coral reefs ... that mining and agricultural runoff be limited or prohibited, as metals and chemicals from their processes ...

Losing coral reefs doesn’t just mean the loss of some ocean eye candy — reefs provide habitat for countless species of fish and other ocean creatures, and damage to them puts incredible strain ...

Divers with the DLNR Division of Aquatic Resources returned to the area on Tuesday, two days after the yacht was finally freed from the rocks and reef and towed out to sea ... Damage is shown to ...

The kikumeishimodoki, or zebra coral, lies about 20 meters off the coast of the Kamo district of Tsuruoka in Yamagata Prefecture, which faces the Sea of Japan. The northern limit of the reef ...

A spiraling coral ... sea ecosystems and the species that inhabit them, they are also vulnerable to other human impacts. In addition to ongoing plastic pollution and efforts to launch deep-sea ...