JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — One of Earth's most biodiverse marine regions is threatened by the expansion of nickel mining ...

Coral reef ecosystems are generally high in biodiversity, most often found in shallow tropical seas, and are threatened by factors including ocean acidification, global warming and sea level rise.

This rate of warming is close to that of the global mean sea surface temperature. The year with the highest average sea surface temperature on record was 2022, which was associated with a strong ...