T he coral that makes up the Great Barrier Reef has experienced the greatest decline in recorded history. According to yearly ...

Unfortunately, the warnings about the health of the Great Barrier Reef are not isolated. Another report listed groundwater ...

Palau's corals have emerged unscathed from the world's devastating marine heatwaves. Researchers are breeding and planting ...

World-famous coral reefs along Western Australia's (WA) coast have suffered the worst bleaching on record after the state's "longest, largest and most intense" marine heatwave, scientists say. Between ...

Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef suffered its biggest ever decline last year after a marine heatwave bleached vast swathes of hard coral, a new report has found.

Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on wildlife, science and the environment. Robyn joined Newsweek in 2022 having previously worked at environmental ...

Coral reefs worldwide are undergoing their fourth global bleaching event due to warming ocean waters, scientists say. Since February 2023, coral reef bleaching across at least 53 countries, ...

Naturalists and scientists had long known the Great Barrier Reef faced natural threats. In 1925, the naturalist E. H.

MELBOURNE, Australia — The United Nations issued a dire alert Monday, warning that many of the world’s coral reefs could die as soon as 2040 as a result of climate change. Already, warming waters have ...

At the heart of coral health lies a symbiotic relationship with tiny microorganisms known as zooxanthellae. These microscopic algae reside within coral tissues, functioning like solar panels that ...

Coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time, top reef scientists declared Monday, a result of warming ocean waters amid human-caused climate change. Coral reef ...