Last week, the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), a global partnership and forum of 100-plus governments, NGOs, and ...

Bleaching is a major threat to the health of the reef and its World Heritage status, both of which are key to tourism and the fate of the seat of Leichhardt, held by the Coalition on a tight 3.4 ...

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its ...

Viewed from the boat, the mighty elkhorn corals shimmer through the clear water, their tips grazing the surface and seeming ...

“Bleaching becomes more severe if either the heat stress episodes are more intense or if they last for a longer time,” Joerg Wiedenmann, a marine biologist who heads the Coral Reef Laboratory ...

She said on the outer reef, beyond the reach of flood plumes, “shallow corals are turning ghostly white or glowing in intense fluorescent hues”. She said the coral bleaching was the direct ...