Record-breaking ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching ...

The Great Barrier Reef, a global treasure and the largest coral reef system on Earth, has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching event ever recorded. Spanning over 344,000 square kilometers, the ...

Scientists from the University of Sydney tracked 462 coral colonies at the reef’s One Tree Island over the course of five months last year, beginning at the heat wave’s peak in early February.

A marine heatwave has caused "catastrophic" damage to the Great Barrier Reef, inflicting health impacts to coral not ...

Marine scientists tracked coral colonies in a remote area of the Great Barrier Reef and found that corals previously more resilient to bleaching suffered devastating and fatal bleaching during ...

On the floor of the tank a small coral “tree”, around six inches high ... or a thousand years hence should today’s coral reefs be destroyed – as seems likely – by climate change.

Research on Scott Reef off Northwest Australia has shown that local coral connections help boost the resilience of remote atoll reef systems following bleaching and storms. Coral reefs are facing ...

Immediate global action on “ambitious climate and reduced emissions targets” are now needed to halt “catastrophic damage” to ...

They monitored the health of 462 coral colonies at One Tree Reef between February (one of the region's hottest months) and July (the Southern Hemisphere's winter). At the start of the study ...

The kikumeishimodoki, or zebra coral, lies about 20 meters off the coast of the Kamo district of Tsuruoka in Yamagata Prefecture, which faces the Sea of Japan. The northern limit of the reef ...