New study documents a severe coral bleaching event occurring in a deep coral reef that resulted in high rates of coral mortality. Unlike many bleaching events, this was driven by the presence of ...

Tools and fire were probably just extremely fortunate means to an end for ancient humans. But as hammerstones evolved to AIs and bullet trains, we were somehow left cleaning up our mess from even ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...

Hope Spot Champions Rili Djohani and Wira Sanjaya are restoring damaged reefs in the Coral Triangle in Indonesia.  Read more ...

When Captain Robert Moresby sailed through the Chagos Islands between 1834 and 1837, to conduct the first survey of the ...

The Indian Ocean is the third largest body of water on Earth at more than 6,000 miles wide and covering 13% of the world's surface. It is home to 5,000 species of fish, many of which only exist in ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) recently published a paper detailing their observations of a ...

Researchers uncover new cartilaginous fish species on the Madagascar Ridge, stressing the urgency of conservation in these ...

Sports shops routinely sell snorkelling gear to city slickers. All of this crossed my mind as I waded into the turquoise ...

"I always knew I wanted to work on coral reefs in Western Indian Ocean and I am fortunate to be able to do that through the Wild Impact marine program," she says. Floros explains that scientists ...

What have global efforts to protect oceans actually achieved? Our study of nearly 2,600 tropical coral reefs around the world ...