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

Harmful bleaching is now affecting 84% of the world's coral reefs, the highest rate in recorded history, scientists say. The phenomenon comes as oceans increasingly warm as a result of human ...

“The ongoing global coral bleaching event is the biggest to date,” NOAA scientists said. Bleaching occurs when heat upends the coral’s metabolism, causing it to turn white as it expels the ...

In 2016, a world-wide coral ... image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable The numbers are incredible: In 1998 and 2002, only about 10 percent of the surveyed reefs were in the extreme bleaching ...

open image in gallery Map showing global coral bleaching alert levels from January 2023 to April 2025. Areas in red, pink and purple indicate regions experiencing severe marine heat stress ...

A global coral bleaching event that began in 2023 has quickly grown to the largest on record. (Photo by SARAH LAI/AFP via Getty Images) This bleaching event, which began in 2023, has been so ...

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 ...

(Photo by Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — The world’s coral reefs are in the midst of the fourth and largest global bleaching event in recorded history, the National Oceanic ...