Bleached coral dies when exposed to heat stress for too long, threatening the bountiful marine ecosystem that depends on it ...

Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean's reefs in the most intense event of its ...

In the Caribbean, Great Barrier Reef, the Red Sea, and Florida, the reefs have suffered near-complete bleaching. Worldwide, ...

More than 80% of the world's coral reefs fell victim to harmful bleaching and is now in "uncharted territory" with the worst ...

The impacts of warming global temperatures are having a catastrophic effect on the planet's coral reefs, a new report has ...

Coral reefs are sometimes dubbed “rainforests of the sea" — approximately 25% of all marine species can be found in, on and ...

In Florida, for example, coral reefs act as a natural buffer to storm energy that can shield coastlines from destructive forces. According to Wiedenmann, coral reefs support a third of all marine ...

The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) announced that bleaching-level heat stress has impacted more than 80% of the ...

to propagate them in a zoo so they might be used someday to repopulate wild coral reefs if needed. Other projects, including one off Florida, have worked to rescue corals endangered by high heat ...

The world's coral reefs are in the midst of the fourth and largest global bleaching event in recorded history, the National ...