Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Emese Maczko is a travel writer covering sustainable travel. Island tourism in destinations like the Maldives, Bahamas and ...

Coral reefs may seem like paradise, but they are being degraded by a range of global and local factors, including climate change, poor water quality, and overfishing. New research reveals that ...

Coral reefs, the "rainforests of the sea," provide habitats for 25% of all marine life. Critical to global biodiversity, they are essential for food supply, culture and recreation and coastal ...

Coral reefs, those vibrant underwater cities, stand on the precipice of collapse. While rising ocean temperatures and coral bleaching grab headlines, a new essay reveals a hidden layer of complexity ...

Coral reefs are threatened by rapidly deteriorating environmental conditions that are warmer, less favorable for calcification, have impaired water quality, and pose continuing disease threats. Coral ...

Beneath the beauty of coral reefs lies a hidden universe of microbes unlike anything scientists expected. Each coral species supports its own specialized microbial partners, many of which have never ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Two years ago almost to the day, my wife Tracy and I found ourselves ...

A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover. But in our new research, we show this might not be the ...

Climate change has killed billions of corals and fundamentally changed coral reefs. The response, especially in Australia, has been to fix the symptoms, not address the cause – climate change for ...

In Australia, researchers are pioneering new methods to fortify coral reefs in a warming world. These tiny algae cells have been cultivated for 10 years to withstand hot ocean temperatures. Scientists ...