Scientists say they have found the world's largest coral near the Pacific's Solomon Islands ... The massive coral is not a coral reef, structures that can be far larger but are comprised of ...

LONDON -- On Thursday, as a National Geographic expedition was exploring the waters around the Solomon Islands ... Corals and coral reefs are endangered due to global warming, which results ...

The mega coral was spotted during a scientific expedition launched by the National Geographic Pristine Seas program in October to study ocean health in the Solomon ... Unlike a reef, which ...

Meanwhile, new research suggests that more than 40 percent of hard corals — those that build reefs, like the recently ...

Coral reefs support a quarter of all known marine ... I just returned from the Solomon Islands, where I met with community members and government officials who have already committed to ...

OUT of a collection of nearly seventy corals which I made in these islands, nearly a quarter are ... in my paper the characters of a typical reef, I proceeded to refer to the complex relations ...

It was found by a National Geographic team conducting an expedition in the Solomon Islands in October ... scoop of ice cream plopped down on the reef, this newly discovered coral is as if the ...

The “mega coral” – which is a network of small creatures that together form one huge organism rather than a reef – was found in the waters of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele agreed. “Our survival depends on healthy coral reefs, so this exciting discovery underlines the importance of protecting and sustaining them for fu ...