Call them the diamonds of the sea. Jewelry made from Mediterranean red coral has found a new, unprecedented level of desirability among Chinese consumers — whose insatiable penchant for the rare ...

As one jeweler in Torre del Greco said, “If coral disappears, we’re all closing down.” By Laura Rysman TORRE DEL GRECO, Italy — In the Vesuvius-shadowed outskirts of Naples, between the archaeological ...

There’s a brisk illegal trade in precious red corals, from the family Coralliidae, but law enforcement currently has a difficult time telling commonly traded taxa apart. Demand for the corals for use ...