Full-d ay tour: Glass-bottom boat, Cape Manza and Okinawa World. Coral reef, fish and marine creatures can be seen through the glass-bottom of the boat that sails from the Busena Marine Park.

Coral reefs play crucial roles in marine ecosystems, and researchers in Okinawa, Japan, have developed a technology to further understand these complex creatures.  Researchers from the Okinawa ...

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University Summary: ... from how larvae disperse in the open ocean to how coral reef fish will react to climate change.

Coral reef in the Okinawa Islands make for excellent snorkelling and fishing. Getty Images Since setting sail from Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay 10 days ago, we have covered 1500 nautical miles.

ISHIGAKI, Japan -- The economy here on Ishigaki Island is desperately dependent on the divers and snorkelers who flock to its shores for the vivid coral reef, which teems with a dizzying array of ...

Just a few meters beneath the clear, blue waters of Okinawa, reef-building corals known as Scleractinia have quietly lived for centuries. Slowly, layer by layer, they have constructed intricate ...

In 2016, ocean temperatures soared, devastating the corals of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. As the frequency, duration and magnitude of these marine heatwaves increases due to human-induced ...

Weeding, when done by fish being studied by scientists who are writing reports, is called cultivation mutualism. ... Thailand, Borneo, the Okinawa islands and the Great Barrier Reef. ...