There is an explosion of color beneath the surface in Raja Ampat. The remote archipelago is in eastern Indonesia where sharks, reef mantas and sea turtles glide alongside vast schools of fish through ...

A new study has found that oceanographic connectivity (the movement and exchange of water between different parts of the ocean) is a key influence for fish abundance across the Western Indian Ocean ...

Ocean fish populations have fallen dramatically in the past half-century, and climate change is expected to make the problem worse. Governments have designated “marine protected areas”, where where ...

South Florida researchers trying to prevent predatory fish from devouring laboratory-grown coral are grasping at biodegradable straws in an effort to restore what some call the rainforest of the sea.

Scientist Amy Apprill, with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, places a recording device onto a coral reef in the U.S. Virgin Islands. (Paul Caiger/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Do fish bay ...

With a human population of 8.3 billion people worldwide and millions facing malnutrition, food security is something to think about. But imagine if the ocean could help with that. Subscribe to our ...

Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Malin Pinsky. Malin Pinsky is an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he ...

When people hear about underwater reefs, they usually picture colorful gardens created from coral. But some reefs are anchored to much more unusual foundations. For more than a century, people have ...

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