A group in Louisiana is taking a unique approach to help create new reefs. They're using recycled oyster shells to create living reefs in the Bayou. Decades of coastal erosion and land loss have ...

James Porter stood next to a large display containing exotic butterflies collected in recent years in Costa Rica and as a comparison these insects are exhibited next to renderings of the same type ...

GRAND BAYOU, La. (WVUE) - For centuries, the people of Grand Bayou—a remote, boat-accessible village west of the Mississippi River—have called the disappearing coastline of Plaquemines Parish home.

When Andrew Baker looks out at the vacant lot next to his office on Virginia Key, he doesn’t see the trees or grass that are there now. He sees a factory of the future. One story tall, roughly the ...

Healthy corals like these on Australia's Lady Elliot Reef could disappear by the 2030s if climate change is not curbed. Rebecca Spindler, CC BY-ND This novel approach involves storing and cooling ...

Researchers in Bermuda and Indonesia have found that degraded reefs can be restored given enough time and investment. Samia Sarkis, the director of research and development at Bermuda’s Living Reefs ...

A healthy coral reef with both hard corals and softer-bodied relatives at Chinchorro Reef in the Mexican Caribbean Sea. (Photo courtesy of David Paz-Garcia) In 1980, the National Museum of Natural ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast. While researchers have known since the 1960s that some ...