Despite strong support from environmental and Native Hawaiian stewardship groups, a bill that would recognize watersheds and coral reefs as legal persons failed to move forward in the Legislature ...

Hawaii has plenty of gorgeous coral reefs that snorkelers love to explore, but the science behind the reefs is just as fascinating as the natural beauty.

For Les Watling, ecologist and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the name for a new species of deep-sea coral — Iridogorgia chewbacca — was intuitive from the start. The ...

An invasive soft coral has been spotted in Hawaii and Puerto Rico and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration is warning Florida to start preparing. Xenia pulse corals are soft corals that ...