Coral reefs are known for their vibrant, rainbow-hued colors. They are vital to 25% of ocean life, even though they only make ...

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

A team of scientists tracked more than 400 corals that experienced intense ocean heat last year. More than half the corals died.

Scientists are alarmed by the ongoing crisis, with deteriorating conditions harming marine life in the tropics and beyond ...

A year after the fourth worldwide coral bleaching event was declared by the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), the "most intense" affair is still ongoing––with alerts continuing to be ...

Great Barrier Reef bleaching. Image: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Australian Institute of Marine Science, and CSIRO, 2025, Reef Snapshot: Summer 2024–25, Reef Authority, ...

Scientists further describe a "graveyard of dead corals" in Australia's northern Great Barrier Reef following 2024's bleaching event that caused about 40% of its coral life to die in one spot to ...

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 International Coral Reef Initiative announced ...

Window to save Australia's Great Barrier Reef is closing fast, report warns Bleaching occurs when coral expels algae that provides not just their characteristic colour but food and nutrients ...

Last year, a fatal heat wave hit southern sections of Australia’s 1,400-mile Great Barrier Reef — threatening it with major fatalities for the first time. In 2016, a mass bleaching event hit ...

The world's biggest coral system had seen only two mass bleaching events before 2016 ... New funding for the Great Barrier Reef will improve water quality but not address its central threat.

An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread ... how that recovery is going to happen," the veteran reef scientist told the French news agency AFP from Florida. Window to save Australia's Great ...