Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But today, a group of 160 scientists from 23 countries announced that the planet has already reached its first major tipping point ...

They live in the ocean’s coldest, darkest depths, far from sight — but cold-water corals are far from safe. In a first-of-its-kind study published in Marine Biodiversity in June, a team of researchers ...

Hidden on the ocean floor off the coast of Argentina is a coral colony that is absolutely bursting with life. Researchers have known of its existence for more than a century, but no one had ever ...

The Earth has entered a new climate reality: warm-water coral reefs are now widely recognized as the first environment on the planet to have passed a climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points ...

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The ...