(AP) - 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 ...

A yellowtail parrotfish swims along a coral reef in Miami, Florida. Parrotfish are important for a reef’s health and are frequent visitors here. CREDIT: Coral City Camera. Get the Popular Science ...

About a year ago, the seas got unusually hot, even by our current, overheated standards. Twelve months of broken records later, the oceans are still more feverish than climate models and normal ...

RESEARCHERS ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE RECENT EXTREME HEAT AND THEY WANT TO SEE HOW IT’S IMPACTING OUR CORAL REEFS. WARMING WATER TEMPERATURES ARE ONE OF THE MANY CAUSES OF WHAT’S CALLED CORAL BLEACHING.

South Florida’s coral reefs are in grave danger and the enemy is the water in which they live — It’s just way too hot. “We’re now in the middle of July and we’re looking at temperatures higher than we ...

MIAMI — Off the northern coast of Honduras, thick stands of endangered elkhorn coral have mysteriously defied warming oceans fueled by climate change to blanket the reef with healthy, cocoa-brown ...

(NEW YORK) — A quarter of the world’s coral has disappeared in the last 30 years, and scientists warn that coral reefs could be entirely wiped out by the end of the century. Coral reefs support more ...

Record levels of heat in the ocean are causing a worldwide mass bleaching event on coral reefs. It's the second one this decade, where the delicate skeletons of corals turn a ghostly white. With mass ...

The impacted reefs span at least 83 countries and territories. The world's coral reefs are in the midst of the fourth and largest global bleaching event in recorded history, the National Oceanic and ...