Roughly 84% of the world’s coral reef area has now been exposed to heat stress severe enough to trigger mass bleaching, the ...

The largest global coral bleaching event on record has officially ended, but El Niño is on the way to interrupt the recovery process.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Extreme ocean heat is causing a mass bleaching event in coral reefs across the globe, according to the National Oceanic and ...

Coral reefs worldwide are undergoing their fourth global bleaching event due to warming ocean waters, scientists say. Since February 2023, coral reef bleaching across at least 53 countries, ...

A bleached Acropora palmata image from Jamaica taken in October 2023. Credit: Sabine Hossenfelder/Oxford Open Climate Change A new paper in Oxford Open Climate Change indicates that extensive ...

MIAMI — A year after the worst bleaching event ever recorded, the coral reefs off the Florida coast are slowly recovering. Despite elevated ocean temperatures, scientists say this summer they didn’t ...

Last summer, the Great Barrier Reef suffered its worst mass coral bleaching event. Our new data show the devastating damage the bleaching caused to a reef at Lizard Island—a finding that does not bode ...

About a year ago, the seas got unusually hot, even by our current, overheated standards. Twelve months of broken records later, the oceans are still more feverish than climate models and normal ...

University of Guam researcher Dr. Laurie Raymundo conducting a health assessment of a bleached Acropora muricata thicket in Apra Harbor, Guam, October 2017. Credit: Dave Burdick Benefits to society ...

The team analysed the before and after state of the coral post bleaching event. This image was captured by drone following bleaching. New research has revealed alarming coral mortality rates of 92 per ...

Extreme ocean heat is causing a mass bleaching event in coral reefs across the globe, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

A new paper in Oxford Open Climate Change, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that extensive bleaching and deaths are widespread at several major coral reefs around the world. This ...