Australia is doing absolutely everything to protect its most iconic ecosystem — except, perhaps, the one thing that really ...

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Regulators are paying attention too. Central banks and financial supervisors are increasingly asking how nature loss makes ...

Allowing coral reef fish to rebound is emerging as one of the clearest ways to put more healthy protein on the plates of coastal families without stripping the ocean bare. New science suggests that if ...

All our laws and rules to protect coral reefs now stand in the way of radical action to save them from heat death ...

As increased industrial activity puts fragile deep-sea ecosystems at risk, one artist is raising awareness about imperiled ...

The decline in the health of nature around the world poses a threat to the UK's security and prosperity, an intelligence committee has concluded in a long-awaited report.

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Meet the walking shark, a species of shark that can walk on land, survive low oxygen environments, and reproduce without ...

A kiss from a colorful reef fish called a tubelip wrasse is perfectly suited for eating a hazardous diet using one of the animal kingdom's most unique feeding strategies.

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do the same.