One Enorama reef shows as a low, scrub-covered hill in the foreground, surrounded by smoothly weathered shale. The pale, weathered diapir is in the background. A thin line of outcrop at the back ...

Research on Scott Reef off Northwest Australia has shown that local coral connections help boost the resilience of remote atoll reef systems following bleaching and storms. Coral reefs are facing ...

On the Ulithi atoll, in the Federated States of Micronesia, however, some reefs are struggling with a different kind of ecological shift: getting smothered by a single type of weedy coral.

The Spratly Islands are a nebula of biological wonder – an archipelago of atolls and reefs that support 600 coral species and 6,000 fish species – including huge schools of batfish ...

Ecological restoration may save coral atoll islands from the rising seas of climate change, according to an international team of scientists, conservationists, and an indigenous leader. While ...