Florida’s coral reefs provide protection from hurricane storm surges—and experts estimate that losing key species in those reefs could imperil thousands of lives. A blue tang fish swims among coral at ...

A Honduran coral reef withstood a century of pollution and disease. It could be used to restore dying Caribbean reefs—if scientists can figure out how it survived. Despite being exposed to decades of ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- A new global report warns coral reefs have already reached a climate tipping point, dying faster than they can naturally recover. The Global Tipping Points Report, authored ...

The Earth has entered a new climate reality: warm-water coral reefs are now widely recognized as the first environment on the planet to have passed a climate tipping point. The Global Tipping Points ...

After 10,000 years, they're now gone. Nearly all of Florida’s critically endangered Acropora coral colonies are now dead, after a record-breaking ocean heat wave in 2023. This marks the species’ ...

RODRIGUEZ, WPBF 25 NEWS. WELL, YESTERDAY WE TOLD YOU HOW A MAJORITY OF THE PLANET’S CORAL REEFS HAVE BEEN DAMAGED BY GLOBAL WATER TEMPERATURES. SO HOW ARE OUR CORAL REEFS DOING ALONG THE TREASURE ...

Some coastal resorts are in a unique position to help protect the marine life that draws so many visitors in the first place. As coral reefs around the world face unprecedented stress from warming ...

Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused climate change, according to a new report by scientists in Europe. The ...

The world's tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive, a major scientific report announced on Monday. It is the first time ...

A recent surge in ocean temperatures has caused the widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world, officially triggering the first climate tipping point for one of Earth’s ...

Coral reefs around the globe have for years suffered publicly in warming oceans, periodically making headlines when iconic underwater landscapes lose their colors and wither during repeated mass ...