Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

Coral reefs are known for their vibrant, rainbow-hued colors. They are vital to 25% of ocean life, even though they only make up less than 1% of the planet’s surface. They provide food and ...

What Causes Coral Bleaching? A healthy coral's brownish base color comes from tiny, plant-like critters known as zooxanthellae. While these colorful inhabitants are each less than 1 millimeter in ...

The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) announced that bleaching-level heat stress has impacted more than 80% of the world's coral reefs in the fourth global coral bleaching event.

The Earth’s rising temperatures have caused bleaching events to occur more often and last longer, ... NOAA documented the first global coral bleaching event in 1998 and the second in 2010.

Record high temperatures and relentless marine heat waves triggered widespread coral bleaching and die-offs in the Florida Keys and the Caribbean this summer, forcing emergency rescue measures to ...

This ocean warming has led to more coral reefs being bleached than ever before. Prior bleaching events in "1998, 2010, and 2014-17 saw 21%, 37% and 68% of reefs subjected to bleaching-level heat ...

Scientists in Australia have observed unprecedented coral bleaching across the world's largest reef system. In a new study, ...

What Causes Coral Bleaching? Think of corals as that friend who gets stressed easily. They’re sensitive to shifts in temperature, light or nutrients — and when they get frazzled, their go-to ...

The world's coral reefs are in the midst of the fourth and largest global bleaching event in recorded history, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced this week.. The grim ...

A year after the worst coral bleaching ever recorded, Florida's reefs are slowly recovering. Despite elevated ocean temperatures, scientists say this summer they didn’t see significant bleaching.