Near-annual extreme heat in the Coral Sea, including in 2024, is causing back-to-back mass bleaching events in the iconic Great Barrier Reef. ... It’s the coral in the coal mine. ...

A Desperate Push to Save Florida’s Coral: Get It Out of the Sea. ... “You talk about canaries in the coal mine,” he said. “These canaries have been dying now for 40 years. ...

How scientists take 400-year-old samples of coral. When the team set out on their study, they only had temperature records from the Coral Sea around the reef going back to 1900.

Tropical coral reefs encrust the coastlines of islands and continents near Earth’s equator but this zone, which has offered sufficient light and warmth for corals to evolve over hundreds of millions ...

Normally, deep-sea reefs have a relatively low proportion of coral coverage, about 10-20%, per the news release. But this system stands out for its particular vigor: an estimated 50-60% live coral ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered extensive, ancient deep-sea coral reefs within the Galápagos Marine Reserve (GMR) -- the first of their kind ever to be documented inside the marine protected area (MPA ...