In 2014 the Fisheries Service listed 20 species of corals as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, with 12 of them ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service issued a final rule recently to change the status of the pillar coral, a species found ...

WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service proposed today to change the status of the pillar coral, a species found in Florida waters and elsewhere in the Caribbean, from threatened to ...

Florida’s very rare pillar coral is being added to the endangered species list. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service changed the status of pillar coral from threatened to endangered under the ESA.

Their distinctive brain-like appearance comes from the way the polyps intertwine, forming a communal structure that can ...

What is the staghorn coral? Like its name suggests, staghorn coral is a species of coral that looks a bit like the antlers of a male deer. Capable of growing into thickets up to five feet high and ...

On our first dive we descended into a large stand of elkhorn coral, a critically endangered species diminished throughout the Caribbean. We found ourselves in a dense thicket, amazed as we watched ...

With so many coral species affected by the killer ailment ... who is part of a coral conservation group for the Caribbean's UK territories, continues. "There's a big push to keep it out of ...

The Mesoamerican Reef, the longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere, stretches 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) along the Caribbean ... 60 types of corals and more than 500 fish species, along ...