Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...

But bleaching is disastrous for coral reefs, because the algae provide about 90 percent of the coral’s energy. Without it, the coral goes white as it starves.

Recurring bleaching events are upending earlier scientific models that forecast that between 70% and 90% of the world's coral reefs could be lost when global warming reached 1.5 degrees Celsius (2 ...

By looking at the microbial communities that live on corals, our research uncovered a crucial role that fishes play in protecting coral reefs. We also discovered that these fishes together with clean ...

A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working together to ...

NOAA documented the first global coral bleaching event in 1998 and the second in 2010. During the previous global event, between 2014 and 2017, 68 percent of the world’s coral reefs experienced ...

On top of that, a Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) and United Nations Environment Programme report found that about 14% of the world’s coral reefs disappeared between 2009 and 2018 ...

Coral reefs endangered by bleaching in global event, researchers say By Adam Dunnakey, CNN 3 minute read Updated 1:06 PM EDT, Thu October 8, 2015 Link Copied! Video Ad ...

Global Coral Bleaching Event Is 'Biggest To Date,' Affecting 84% Of All Reefs, New Report Finds. ... coral reefs also play an important role in keeping us safer from extreme weather.

It's the fourth global bleaching event since 1998, and has now surpassed bleaching from 2014-17 that hit some two-thirds of reefs, said the ICRI, a mix of more than 100 governments, non ...

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 ...

The University of Miami’s ECoREEF experiment, off the coast of Miami Beach, Florida, is testing the impact of hybrid reef structures on coastal ecosystems.