Finding Nemo wasted no time in giving its audience a truly heartbreaking scene. The movie opens with Marlin and his wife, Coral, who live happily on an anemone in the Great Barrier Reef.

Nemo—a clownfish of the species Amphiprion percula—introduced millions of children around the world to a wondrous tropical ecosystem: the coral reef and its denizens. Clownfish get their name ...

US Rep. Ed Case (D-Hawai‘i) reintroduced legislation on Monday aimed at protecting the world’s coral reef ecosystems by ...