Divers touched or hit the reef, on average, about once every four minutes. More than 40% of those contacts caused visible damage, including broken corals or sediment deposited onto living coral.

Previous research done in the 1960s did not thoroughly study the reef system.

A coral reef, missing and presumed dead, has been found alive and well off the coast of Benin. Surveys in the 1960s, focused ...

Some 60 years ago scientists documented a coral reef off the coast of Benin in West Africa that they presumed was already ...

Great Barrier Reef faces mass bleaching and collapse as El Nino builds record strength, scientists warn - Scientists say ...

The researchers say it's possible that further surveys will identify more reefs. The post Coral reef presumed dead for 60 ...

Florida's only coral reef system is rapidly disappearing, and scientists warn a major setback in state funding could stall efforts to save it just as restoration work was beginning to scale up.

Scientists first identified the possible location during the 1960s, while surveying potential fishing areas, but assumed that whatever reef resided along the seafloor was dead. After receiving grant ...

Coral reefs might make you think of beautiful tropical islands and shallow seas teaming with fish, but there exist other ...

South Florida corals are in crisis again. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is already sounding the alarm as ocean temperatures once again climb into the danger zone for ...

The footage showed a seemingly healthy reef, with 8 different types of coral and 8 species of fish sheltering and feeding ...

As underwater temperatures continue to soar in South Florida, the coral shuffle has begun. Scientists are eyeing any coral that isn’t tied down and making plans to move them somewhere safe: to deeper ...