New research has revealed alarming coral mortality rates of 92% after last year's bleaching event at Lizard Island on ...

Coral reefs around the world are experiencing a mass bleaching event as the climate crisis drives record-breaking ocean heat, two scientific bodies announced Monday — with some experts warning ...

Global coral reef bleaching event is largest on record, report says 03:59. Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean's reefs in the most intense event of its ...

The world’s coral reefs are close to 25% larger than we thought. By using satellite images, machine learning and on-ground knowledge from a global network of people living and working on coral ...

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

During the same period, turf algae—small, fast-growing plants that can smother coral to death—substantially increased from covering 25 percent of the bay floor in 2021 to 79 percent in 2022.

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

Florida's coral reef system is large, stretching 350 miles from the Dry Tortugas off the coast of Key West to Martin County, north of Palm Beach on the Atlantic side of the state.

Coral reefs provide many benefits for ecosystems — supporting 25% of all marine species and acting as hotbeds for biodiversity — as well as the communities in which they are located. The reefs protect ...

The results could be equally dire for the over 100,000 coral fragments already planted back on the reefs. If the reefs collapsed completely, it would be disastrous for the Florida Keys.

Coral in the Great Barrier Reef is resilient, and has been able to recover from past disturbances, the Institute said. But the stressors impacting it have not gone away for long.

The researchers found that under moderate emissions scenarios – aligned with current climate policies projecting a global temperature rise of 3°C – natural adaptation may allow some coral populations ...