Did you know coral reefs cover less than 0.1% of the ocean but support 25% of marine species? This shows how vital these ecosystems are. Exploring the 10 best island reefs around the world reveals ...

New research examined coral restoration projects worldwide to calculate what it would actually cost to bring back what’s ...

In recent years global warming has harmed almost every reef around the world. When corals are exposed to elevated ocean temperatures, they’re susceptible to coral bleaching — which means they expel ...

Located off the northeastern coast of Australia, the Great Barrier Reef — made up of more than 3,860 separate coral reefs ... coast of Australia and around the world — comes from the carbon ...

Caption Coral reefs around the world are increasingly under threat from coral bleaching which destroys colonies and interrupts the food chain they support. Scientists at the University of Guam ...

The series of mass coral bleaching events that killed vast areas of reef around the world, including half of the Great Barrier Reef between 2015 and 2017, was a stark wake-up call. In 2022 there was ...

There is widespread agreement that human activity is threatening coral reefs around the world. But ecologists who study modern reefs lack the long-term data required to distinguish natural variability ...

The last study, released in 1998, found nearly 60 percent of coral reefs were threatened by human activity. More than 500 million people around the world depend on coral reefs for food and income; the ...

"For most years, say five out of seven years, there will be now mass bleaching on coral reefs around the world," he says. Veron says he hates to predict the future for the Great Barrier Reef ...