ROCKPORT — Forming a firefighting-style human chain, young volunteers passed more than 370 bags of oyster shells from the shore into the shallow water of St. Charles Bay on May 7. The youngest ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Marine scientists and local fisherman teamed up in Virginia Beach this weekend to build an artificial reef in the Chesapeake Bay. Using round concrete castings known as reef ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Organ pipes, honeycombs, the gills of mushrooms — corals form in a vivid polyphony of shapes and colors. One night in 2005, Australian artists and sisters Christine and Margaret ...

New York City is getting a pearl of underwater development off the shores of Brooklyn — one that will rival Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in terms of ecological importance. The Billion Oyster Project ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Climate change is likely to make reef-building stony corals lose out to softer cousins in a damaging shift for many types of fish that use reefs as hideaways and nurseries for their ...

The crew of the Robert Lee deposits oyster shells with spat on the on to Peach Orchard Reef. The Severn River Association and the Oyster Recovery Project held a joint press conference at Jonas and ...

The U.S. Virgin Islands will soon build its first artificial reef to protect its coasts and help the U.S. territory become more resilient ahead of future storms, officials announced Thursday. The ...

UM marine biology and ecology professor Andrew Baker poses with a coral skeleton in a wet lab at the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science complex at Virginia Key on Thursday, ...

According to the United Nations Environment Programme, between 70-90% of coral species will die by 2050 if drastic measures to limit global warming aren’t taken now. Scientists at Kansas City’s ...

Dec 2 (Reuters) - A barge planned for use building a controversial judging tower for the Paris 2024 Olympic surfing competition in Tahiti snagged on a reef and damaged coral near the contest site on ...

Coral reefs are necessarily gorgeous in color and movement, but below the waves there is a similarly colorful world of sound.