The big blue is the world's greatest wilderness – it's a vast marine desert where there is little to eat and nowhere to hide.

" These incredible structures are built by tiny animals called polyps that secrete calcium carbonate to form their hard skeletons. They occur in more than 100 countries and territories, and whilst ...

C. Mark Eakin is the former head of Coral Reef Watch at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In a new study, he and his colleagues found that a 2014 to 2017 heat wave caused moderate ...

An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis that could kill off swathes of the essential ecosystems, scientists warned ...

Get your dive kit and join Steve underwater to see how scientists are working every day to protect and restore colourful ...

Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. What are the abiotic and biotic interactions that structure this diverse ecosystem? Corals are members of the phylum Cnidaria, a ...

In the warm waters of Kenya, local communities are proving that the vibrant pulse of coral reefs can be restored through ...

Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! In the third year of the seven-year CHANGING PLANET project, renowned conservationist Dr. M. Sanjayan travels to the ...