As more frequent bouts of severe heat stress plague the world’s oceans, coral reefs don’t have enough time to recuperate, a ...

New research has revealed alarming coral mortality rates of 92% after last year's bleaching event at Lizard Island on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef, marking one of the highest coral mortality rates ...

Coral bleaching is the stress response corals undergo when water gets too warm, causing them to lose their color and turn white, according to Houston Public Media. Texas Gulf waters are warming at ...

MIAMI — A year after the worst bleaching event ever recorded, the coral reefs off the Florida coast are slowly recovering. Despite elevated ocean temperatures, scientists say this summer they didn’t ...

Bleaching can suppress reproduction in a common coral species found in the Great Barrier Reef, hampering future reef replenishment, new research led by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS ...

Unprecedented ocean heat has triggered the world’s worst mass coral bleaching event on record – a coral massacre so severe, reef experts are looking to one of nature’s most dangerous and destructive ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mass coral bleaching occurs when unusually warm ocean temperatures disrupt the partnership between corals and the microscopic algae that supply ...

Gland/Sydney, 10 March 2017 – The Australian Government’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority confirmed today that one of the world’s greatest natural icons is experiencing back-to-back mass ...

For more than a decade, marine experts have relied on an alert scale from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to signal how much stress ocean heat is putting on corals and what risk ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing one of its worst bleaching events since monitoring began nearly four decades ago, authorities say, with much of the famed reef showing signs of damage as ...