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 ...

Bleaching is visible on coral reef off the coast of Nha Trang, Vietnam, Oct. 24, 2024. Credit: AP/Yannick Peterhans Efforts are underway to conserve and restore coral.

Since the early 1980s, scientists say, coral bleaching events have increased in frequency and severity as the burning of fossil fuels drives up the planet’s temperature. NOAA documented the ...

Global coral reef bleaching event is largest on record, report says Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean's reefs in the most intense event of its kind in ...

Last week, the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), a global partnership and forum of 100-plus governments, NGOs, and other entities working toward the preservation of the world’s coral ...

The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) announced that bleaching-level heat stress has impacted more than 80% of the world's coral reefs in the fourth global coral bleaching event.

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 ...

FILE – Bleaching is visible on coral reef off the coast of Nha Trang, Vietnam, Oct. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Yannick Peterhans, File) ...

The coral reef system in at least 82 nations and other territories have been exposed to enough heart to turn at least 84% of the world's coral white since the global event started last year in ...

The grim milestone was recorded between January 2023 and April 2025, with the agency documenting that bleaching-level heat stress has impacted 83.7% of the world's coral reef area.

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative a… ...