Coral reefs are fragile ecosystems threatened by climate change and pollution caused by human activity. Photograph by Brian J. Skerry However, in the last 20 years around half of all coral reefs ...

Today, the world’s coral reefs are degrading at unprecedented rates due to pollution, overfishing and destructive forestry and mining practices on land. Climate change driven by human activities ...

(CNN)-- The world's coral reefs are under threat. Overfishing, unsustainable tourism, coastal development, pollution, the global aquarium trade and climate change are having a devastating effect ...

As coastal development, pollution and climate change put increasing stress on the world’s oceans, tropical reefs are losing reef-building corals at unprecedented rates. These corals – species with ...

Coral reefs in the Gulf of Eilat paused growth for 3,000 years due to sea-level changes but later recovered. Scientists warn ...

WHAT if we could build artificial coral reefs to filter microplastics from the sea? That’s a possibility put forward by engineers in Canada who have been looking at how living reefs are becoming ...

Overfishing of sharks is linked to coral reef destruction. Without sharks, smaller fish stop eating coral-eating starfish.

Once-thriving coral reefs off Vietnam’s Nha Trang coast are rapidly deteriorating due to climate change, pollution, and ...

The Australian Government has committed $50 million to a wetlands program, allocated from its $1.2 billion for the ...

An alliance of nations said members would raise US$12 billion (HK$93.98 billion) to protect coral reefs from threats such as pollution and overfishing, but experts warned the funding would only be ...

Healthy reefs mean more fish, providing families with better nutrition ... benefiting coral health and providing a sustainable income source for local fishers. To combat pollution, another major ...