The rare Okinawa dugong has been classified as "critically endangered" on Japan's Ministry of the Environment Red List, the Japanese equivalent to the U.S. government's endangered species...
Conservationists are warning that if sea temperatures continue to be high, coral reefs off Ishigakijima island, Okinawa Prefecture, may develop more cases of large-scale bleaching.
Coral...
With 2008 designated as the year to protect the world's coral reefs, researchers say their efforts to preserve a spectacular natural formation here are steadily yielding fruit.The Sekisei Lagoon,...
Soft coral communities in tropical waters may literally be melting away because of bleaching events, which have been dramatically accelerated by global warming, a leading expert says.
Unlike...
The disease, called "white syndrome," has been observed affecting coral reefs in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia as well as reefs in Okinawa Prefecture.
new threat is surfacing...
A baby giant manta ray -- claimed to be the first in the world to be born in captivity -- died at a Japanese aquarium Thursday after being abused by its father, its Japanese keepers said.
The...
Giant Melithaea and Echinogorgia fans. Scleronephthya whips. They're hard to pronounce, but beautiful to look at.
Photographs of the species, more commonly known as soft coral, and of fish,...
