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

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 ...

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? 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 ...

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

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.

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 Monday, July 7 73°F / Cape Girardeau TORNADO ...

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.

It’s the fourth global bleaching event since 1998, and has now surpassed bleaching from 2014-17 that hit some two-thirds of reefs, said the ICRI, a mix of more than 100 governments, non ...