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

What is Coral Bleaching? This is where things get tricky, as Maiya discovers in “Weathered.” The algae like a comfortable work environment — and when oceans get too warm (around 90° F or 32 ...

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 ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering its sixth mass bleaching due to heat stress caused by climate change, the reef’s managers confirmed Friday.

The Hawaiian blue rice coral may reveal important clues as to how some corals might weather climate ... They found that after the consecutive large-scale bleaching events in 2014 and 2015, ...

Proteomics Links the Redox State to Calcium Signaling During Bleaching of the Scleractinian Coral Acropora microphthalma on Exposure to High Solar Irradiance and Thermal Stress, Molecular and ...

But coral bleaching is much more than an aesthetic loss. It is an environmental indicator: an omen of starving animals, a failing ocean ecosystem and a devastating change in global climate.

Coral bleaching is considered to begin at four degree-heating weeks — meaning four weeks in which temperatures are 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) above the average summertime maximum.

An Australian research vessel testing a localized form of climate engineering — artificial modification of the weather — to ...

For context, during the worst global coral bleaching event on record between 2014 and 2017, the Global Bleaching Event Index peaked at 56 percent. Advertisement ...

Coral bleaching is now so extreme, ... 2024 More than 1 year ago. 5 min. A blue tang fish swims among coral near Key Largo, Fla., on Nov. 29. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post) ...