A huge colony of Pavona coral near the coast of Saudi Arabia is thought to be the largest living example found in the Red Sea ...

Bleached coral dies when exposed to heat stress for too long, threatening the bountiful marine ecosystem that depends on it ...

scientists say. Harmful bleaching caused by warming oceans has reached 84% of the world’s coral reefs, killing the "rainforests of the sea" that are key to seafood production, tourism and ...

More than four-fifths of the world's coral reef areas have been affected by devastating mass bleaching spurred by record-high ...

84 percent of the world's coral reefs ... ecosystems, scientists warned Wednesday. Since it began in early 2023, the global coral bleaching event has mushroomed into the biggest and most intense ...

Coral reefs around the world are losing their color at ... “The ongoing global coral bleaching event is the biggest to date,” NOAA scientists said. Bleaching occurs when heat upends the ...