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football field or two away from Moody Gardens' signature pyramids, great piles of oyster shells sit curing on the pavement.

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Scientists have long known that plastic waste is bad for marine animals. A new study quantifies how little ingested plastic ...

A global analysis of coral bleaching across 81 countries reveals that reefs in the equatorial Coral Triangle region were ...

OFF THE COAST OF EFATE ISLAND, Vanuatu (AP) — Beneath the turquoise waters of Vanuatu, amid a graveyard of broken coral, a moray eel peers from the branches of a staghorn colony. Nearby, the feathered ...