Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84 percent of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative ...

China has concluded that coral reef degradation in the waters surrounding Sandy Cay – a disputed reef in the South China Sea – was due to a combination of natural phenomena and human ...

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Heat stress has impacted 84% of the world’s coral reefs as surging ocean temperatures continue to fuel the most severe global bleaching event on record. The current bleaching event which began ...

More than four-fifths of the world's coral reef areas have been affected by devastating mass bleaching spurred by record-high ocean temperatures, turning many once-colourful reefs a ghostly pale ...

Coral reefs are vital to the health of the oceans, but in recent years they’ve been decimated by climate change, pollution, and overfishing. While this has been widely covered, a new documentary ...

All around the world, from the Great Barrier Reef to the Florida Keys, the bright, vibrant colors of coral reefs have turned ghostly white in vast swaths as our planet has experienced the largest ...

More than 80 percent of the world’s reefs have been exposed to the worst bleaching event in history, according to a report from NOAA and the International Coral Reef Initiative. Coral reefs ...

Warming oceans have caused the worst coral reef bleaching event in recorded history. According to a new report, harmful bleaching has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs — and it’s not ...

An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis that could kill off swathes of the essential ecosystems, scientists warned ...