A recent report on global tipping points warned that coral reefs face widespread dieback and have reached a point from which they cannot recover.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thanks to the dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs, the planet has now reached its first tipping point for human-caused ...

STORY: In the depths of this Great Lake in Croatia’s Mljet National Park, lies the largest known Mediterranean sod coral reef. It spans nearly 7,000 square feet (650 square meters) and hosts a variety ...

Rising ocean temperatures have been implicated in mass coral bleaching events affecting the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). These events have been increasingly frequent, with major events occurring in 2016, ...

Researchers have found that reef fish from the Arabian Gulf, the world's hottest sea, exhibit a higher tolerance to temperature fluctuations compared to those from more thermally stable coral reefs.

Oceans all over the world are experiencing warmer-than-normal temperatures, but waters off the southern U.S. could be on the brink of an ocean heat wave emergency as temperatures rise to unprecedented ...

Florida’s coral reefs reached a breaking point in the summer of 2023, when an unprecedented marine heat wave sent water temperatures in the Florida Keys to record highs and wiped out vast colonies of ...

The public is invited to a free lecture on coral reefs presented by Yvonne Sawall on Thursday [Feb 26], hosted by the Bermuda ...

Coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean floor, but have some amazing superpowers. The next 10 years are a critical window for action to save our reefs.