Great Resilient Reef: reports of wonder’s death have been wildly exaggerated

Despite decades of scientific consensus that it is facing a catastrophic climate change triggered demise, the Great Barrier Reef is refusing to die.
CNN

This mass bleaching event is the worst on record. Now scientists are hoping for hurricanes

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 ...
CNN

84% of the world’s coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record

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 ...
Phys.org

'Unprecedented' mass bleaching drains life from Australian reef

An "unprecedented" mass bleaching event has been recorded off Australia's western coast, scientists said Wednesday, turning huge chunks of a celebrated reef system a sickly dull white. A months-long ...
National Geographic

These photos show what happens to coral reefs in a warming world

Exclusive before and after photos reveal how recent bleaching near Australia’s Lord Howe Island has dramatically changed the region’s coral reefs. May 11, 2024: These healthy, fluorescent corals—lit ...
Phys.org

3D models provide unprecedented look at corals' response to bleaching events

In a study, published July 31 in the journal PLOS ONE, marine biologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Arizona State University provide a first-of-its-kind glimpse into ...
Scientific American magazine

Earth’s Coral Reefs Face a New, Deadly Mass Bleaching. They Can Still Be Saved

O cean heat is killing corals at such high rates that in April scientists declared Earth was in its fourth global bleaching event—the second in a decade. The announcement came from the U.S. National ...