NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Temple University biology professor Erik Cordes about the discovery of the world's largest known deep-sea coral habitat. Now we want to take you to the bottom of the ...

Scientists mapped the largest deep-sea coral reef, which stretches over millions of acres off the Atlantic from Florida to South Carolina and is bigger than Vermont, according to the news release. "It ...

Tropical rainforests and coral reefs are both highly complex ecosystems that are rich in biodiversity. Coral reefs are often described as underwater rainforests. -- Maui Ocean Center photo Tropical ...

The turquoise water of Hōnaunau Bay in Hawaii, an area popular with snorkelers and divers, is teeming with spiny creatures that threaten to push the coral reef “past the point of recovery,” new ...

Over the years, Cody Clements, a marine ecologist at Georgia Tech, has planted over 10,000 coral fragments across the South Pacific. "You can just break off a branch from a coral, plant it into the ...

Now we want to take you to the bottom of the ocean, where scientists have discovered what they now characterize as the largest deep sea coral habitat to be mapped and documented. (SOUNDBITE OF WATER ...