Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have discovered the world's largest coral formation in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. Measuring 34 by 32 meters, it can ...

Scientists have shed important new light on coral skeleton formation. Their investigations, carried out at the nanoscale, provide valuable new information for scientists and environmentalists working ...

MADISON, Wis. — A new University of Wisconsin–Madison study has implications for predicting coral reef survival and developing mitigation strategies against having their bony skeletons weakened by ...

Scientists have discovered a massive, 3,600-square-mile and heretofore unknown coral reef system at the mouth of the Amazon River, the Guardian reported Friday. The 600-mile coral formation "ranges ...

In a discovery that significantly shifts scientists' thinking about coral formation, researchers have found a vast coral reef deep in the Atlantic Ocean some 160 miles off the coast of Charleston, ...

The ring-shaped coral islands known as atolls, like this one in the Maldives Islands in the Indian Ocean, may trace their formation to sea levels repeatedly rising and falling over hundreds of ...

A new study has implications for predicting coral reef survival and developing mitigation strategies against having their bony skeletons weakened by ocean acidification. A new University of ...

(Nanowerk News) An international team of scientists, led by physicists from the University of York, has shed important new light on coral skeleton formation. Their investigations ("Microstructural ...