Beneath the waters of the Solomon Islands lies the largest living being on Earth, a colossal coral colony that symbolizes ...
The quake briefly prompted a tsunami alert for parts of Vanuatu, according to the U.S. Tsunami Warning System, which is part ...
The National Geographic Pristine Seas team initially thought it was a shipwreck. Scientists stunned after discovering coral ...
The scientist believes the mega coral’s location — which is in deeper, cooler waters than where most reefs are found — has protected it from possible environmental calamities and allowed it ...
It tells of a time 125,000 years ago, when a modest increase in Earth’s temperatures caused ice sheets to melt and global sea levels to surge. The height of the coral — which can grow only ...
the framework of the coral reef is filled with sediment and cemented with calcite and aragonite. If sea level changes, the reefs become exposed to corrosive rainwater that dissolves the unstable ...
Beneath the waters off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, a kaleidoscopic ecosystem teems with life. It could become the world’s “last coral refuge” as global heating eradicates reefs elsewhere ...