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 map showing the topography of the Stetson Mesa north region of the Million Mounds, an important habitat supporting a diversity of marine life. Credit: NOAA Scientists recently discovered the largest ...

Largest deep-sea coral reef: How it was discovered The reef is too deep to explore by scuba diving, and that's why the mapping was done using 31 multi-beam sonars, according to the news release.

March 14: 2024: This coral reef was almost entirely white as a result of heat-induced bleaching. May 5, 2024: The same reef was showing signs of recovery.

Currently, in order to obtain a 3D point cloud map of a coral reef, specially trained divers have to move around a section of that reef taking hundreds of photos from many angles.