The Oculina Bank runs from Flagler Beach to Fort Pierce, is thousands of years old, and is found nowhere else in the world.

A vote this week could reinstate shrimp trawling for the first time in decades in a protected area off the coast of Fort ...

Members of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council voted Friday to approve two amendments allowing shrimp trawling on ...

Coral reefs, the "rainforests of the sea," provide habitats for 25% of all marine life. Critical to global biodiversity, they ...

On Dec. 5, the UN recognized the restoration of Australia's shellfish reefs as a World Restoration Flagship, acknowledged for its Indigenous and local leadership together with The Nature Conservancy ...

It's no secret that Florida's iconic coral reefs are in trouble.

Conservationist Christina Hicks explains the tension between protecting marine life and depending on it for food, and how our ...

Warming oceans have brought a record level of toxic compounds to the world’s coral reefs. That’s bad news for seafood production and marine life as a whole. Coral reefs are sometimes dubbed ...

The researchers found that coral reefs across the world could raise sustainable fish production by almost 50 percent. This increase could provide between 20,000 and 162 million extra fish servings per ...

(AP) - Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative announced ...

Scientists confirm warm-water coral reefs are collapsing as Earth passes a critical climate threshold.

The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources recently held a hearing on the Marine Fisheries Habitat Protection Act, which ...