Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), a global partnership and forum of 100-plus governments, NGOs, and other ...

The arrival of a potentially powerful El Nino weather system this year could devastate coral reefs around the world already ...

More than 200 meters beneath the surface of the South Atlantic, where sunlight fades to nothing and water temperatures hover ...

Coral reefs have long been losing their color due to bleaching, but a recent uptick has caused nearly all of the world's reefs to be damaged. A record-breaking amount of marine life fell victim to the ...

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 ...

April 23 (UPI) --More than 80% of the world's coral reefs fell victim to harmful bleaching and is now in "uncharted territory" with the worst global bleaching event in recorded history. The coral reef ...

More than 80 percent of the world’s reefs have been exposed to the worst bleaching event in history, according to a report from NOAA and the International Coral Reef Initiative. Coral reefs—dubbed the ...

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land itself. Sea water divides the sunset and a ghost land of corals in New Ireland, ...

Coral reefs around the world are losing their color at an unprecedented scale as a result of rising sea temperatures, federal marine scientists announced this week, with 84 percent of reefs exposed to ...

Coral bleaching arises when thermal stress forces reef-building corals to expel their symbiotic algae, undermining primary productivity, calcification and habitat complexity. Rising greenhouse-gas ...