Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A deadly and fast-moving disease affecting sea urchins poses an urgent threat to the coral reefs that attract divers from all over ...

A new scientific study warns that scuba diving tourism is contributing to coral reef destruction worldwide. Researchers found divers frequently damage fragile ecosystems through physical contact, ...

Dina Hassan explores efforts to save Egypt’s coral reefs as one of the world’s most promising coral enclaves to survive ...

Research at the University of Sydney has found that scuba-diving tourism—widely promoted as a sustainable way to experience coral reefs—is causing frequent and often hidden damage to fragile marine ...

Over the past decades, recreational diving has emerged as a powerful driver of both economic opportunity and ecological disturbance in coral reef regions worldwide. Divers’ fin kicks, buoyancy errors ...

Seeing sharks, turtles, manta rays or other charismatic species, increased the likelihood of intentional, unintentional and damaging reef contacts. In other words, the moments that often inspire ...

America’s veterans are still taking on missions to save the world. Two retired Special Operations Army veterans, Lt. Col. Suze MacDonald and First Sgt. Dan Henderson, joined an effort just last month ...

At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), scientists at the Marine Genomics Unit, in collaboration with the Japanese telecommunications company NTT Communications, have identified the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But that success also brings a conservation challenge. It brings tourists into direct contact with sensitive coral ecosystems, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Miriam Porter is based in Toronto and covers vegan and kind travel. Coral reefs are huge underwater structures and some of the ...

A Durban PhD graduate has explored the coral reef system off the coast of South Africa and investigated why it was healthy and functioning compared with coral reefs globally. Calvin Wells, 31, from ...