The reef is a teeming city of hard corals, soft corals, fire corals, lace corals, brain corals, staghorn corals, sea whips, sea fans, sea grapes, coralline algae, sponges. Taking refuge everywhere ...

The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is huge, stretching 2,900 km (1,800 miles). It’s filled with a wide variety of marine ...

Soft corals top hard ones, algae and sponges paint the rocks, and every crevice is a creature's home. The biology, like the reef, transforms from the north—where the reef began—to the south.

Beneath the soft bodies of scleractinian, or stony corals, polyps secrete a calcium carbonate skeleton, and it is this skeleton that becomes the foundation of coral reef ecosystems. Coral colonies ...

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) has announced the discovery of a new species of soft coral that belong ...

A recent survey of some areas of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suggested that more than a third of the corals in the region might have died, leaving a marine graveyard behind. “The soft ...

Doha: The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) has announced the discovery of a new type of soft coral from the ...

A new study has found that nearly half the coral trout caught on the Great Barrier Reef come from marine reserves—where ...

Scientists have developed a novel tool designed to protect and conserve coral reefs by providing them with an abundance of ...

Scientists have developed a novel tool designed to protect and conserve coral reefs by providing them with an abundance of feeding opportunities.

Doha, Qatar: Coral Reef Protection and Restoration Programme of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change has ...