Coral reefs, often referred to as the “rainforests of the sea,” are experiencing unprecedented levels of bleaching. This ...

Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef suffered its biggest ever decline last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast ...

Australian authorities say the Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral in four decades.

In one northern section of the reef, about a third of hard coral had died, the "largest annual decline" in 39 years of government monitoring, the agency said. Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier ...

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 ...

Ninety-one percent of reefs surveyed along the Great Barrier Reef in Australia were affected by coral bleaching to some degree during the summer of 2021-22, according to a government study.