You don’t have to be a Pisces to savor a watery world. Vacation destinations built around lakes, rivers and oceans provide soothing scenery and the chance to bask in the sun. It’s shining gloriously ...

Kora-kora canoes, crewed by teams of 30 men, flank the bow of the Aqua Blu as it squeezes between two volcanic islands in Indonesia’s far east. Drumbeats synched with each forward thrust meld with ...

By the mid-17th century it had grown wealthy enough to boast 150 merchant ships, 50,000 employees, a private army of 10,000 soldiers and trading posts from the Persian Gulf to Japan.

5, 2025 — A new study of the Great Barrier Reef ... in coral skeletons. The team developed a new protocol to extract and detect microplastics and applied it to coral samples from the Gulf ...

Reporting in Proceedings Biological Sciences, researchers found that a species of branching coral benefitted from a reef-dwelling crab, especially when the coral was heat-stressed and wounded.

At least 74 countries and territories are confirmed to have experienced coral bleaching since the spring of 2023. As coastal ...

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system. It stretches over 2,300 kilometres along the coast of Queensland, Australia. Made up of nearly 3,000 reefs and 900 islands ...

where it will be cleaned and renovated for a second life as the world’s largest artificial reef off Florida’s Gulf Coast. Here's the latest on the SS United States' journey south.

Those polyps clone themselves over and over again, eventually forming larger coral colonies that build reefs. That’s how typical reef-building corals, like the iconic elkhorn and staghorn ...

A pair of American military vessels responding to a mayday call this week saved the crew of a sinking cargo ship in the Persian Gulf, according to U.S. Central Command. The Navy mine ...