Coral Reefs

Lionfish: If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em

2013-05-06 00:00:00

In recent years, the Indo-Pacific lionfish — a dramatically striped, finned and armored aquarium fish — has invaded Atlantic and Caribbean coral reefs. It has been spotted off the Southeastern United States, throughout the Caribbean Sea, in...

Human population underlies threats to coral survival

2012-12-04 06:05:00

After three years of analysis, a team of federal scientists has come up with a list of the greatest threats to the survival of reef-building corals. And it has ranked the proximate threats, weighing into decades of scientific debate over the biggest...

Art review: 'The Loop Show' at Beacon Arts Building

2011-12-21 16:33:06

The story of Odd Future's Earl Sweatshirt gets another knot

2011-06-20 16:36:23

Malaysian Tioman Island shirks most development, thrives on natural beauty

2011-01-16 00:00:00

Even when you tell people where Tioman Island is — that it's a patch of jungle off the east coast of peninsular Malaysia — you'll still get no glimmer of comprehension. Fine with me, because that makes Tioman everything I want in a castaway...

Coral reefs threatened with extinction

2009-10-20 16:32:53

Gulf oil spill: Florida braces for impact

2010-05-04 16:33:18

'Boulevard' by Stephen Jay Schwartz

2009-10-17 00:00:00

LAPD Det. Hayden Glass, the fractured protagonist at the center of Stephen Jay Schwartz's ambitious first thriller, "Boulevard," leads a double life. As a member of downtown's Robbery-Homicide division, he's "the elite of the elite." But as an...

A Primeval Tide of Toxins

2006-07-30 00:00:00

The fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy growth and spread across the seafloor fast enough to cover a football field in an hour. When fishermen touched it, their skin broke out in searing welts. Their lips blistered and peeled. Their eyes...

Dazzling Palau and its turquoise waters under the radar

2007-06-20 15:36:00

Koror, Palau An underwater armada sailed by my dive mask, turned as if on cue and sailed by again -- a dozen bright splashes of color sparkling in the calm, clear water. These yellow-tailed fusiliers were showing off for a clumsy human intruder, I...

Reef madness

2008-06-01 00:00:00

Silently and steadily, a tragedy is unfolding beneath the ocean's waves: Coral reefs around the world are disappearing. According to some projections, there may be few, if any, left by the end of the century. This dire and credible prediction has shocked...

Hawaiian Islands' reef fish declining, study finds

2008-07-09 00:00:00

Sharks, jacks, parrot fish and other colorful reef fish are quickly disappearing from coral reefs encircling the Hawaiian Islands, federal scientists reported Tuesday. The scientists blamed overfishing for the steep decline, which affects three-...

One of Turks and Caicos' biggest draws is underwater: It's there that divers and snorkelers come eye to eye with a color-saturated world populated by an array of sea life. Many people come to explore the coral reef, one of the world's largest.

2013-03-07 16:30:00

A coral reef shark is just one of the stars of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.

2011-08-03 17:28:45

Thailand has closed a host of popular diving sites for tourists indefinitely to allow coral reefs to recover from widespread bleaching caused by warmer sea temperatures, authorities said on Jan. 21.

2011-01-25 11:15:40