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New report shows the world's coral reefs are declining rapidly

There have been four global coral bleaching events recorded since 1998. This is the process in which stressed corals expel microscopic algae, turning completely white.

Probiotics prevented coral bleaching during a Red Sea heat wave: Study

As a heat wave settled on the Red Sea in 2022, a patch of corals in a reef 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) off the coast of Saudi Arabia reacted differently than other corals. They’d bee...

Nearly all coral reefs risk collapse in 50 years: IUCN

In the first global assessment of its kind, the world authority on threatened wildlife classified 96 percent of the planet's coral reef systems as "critically endangered" -- its hi...

Healthy Coral Reversed Bleaching in Its Neighbor With Just 1 Week of Contact

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Nearly all coral reefs risk collapse in 50 years: IUCN

In the first global assessment of its kind, the world authority on threatened wildlife classified 96 percent of the planet's coral reef systems as "critically endangered" -- its hi...

Academic calls for protection amid coral bleaching

A Touch From Healthy Coral Clones Could Help Revive Bleached Corals in a Matter of Weeks 

Learn more about a promising method for restoring bleached corals and its implications for the future. 

Global coral reefs get less time to recover as oceans heat up, report finds

The world’s coral reefs are losing both hard coral cover and, just as critically, the time they need to recover between increasingly frequent marine heat waves, according to the mo...

Tiny Hairs That Help Corals Breathe May Malfunction in Warming Oceans

Several new studies have uncovered this long overlooked aspect of coral physiology that could be the key to the animals’ fate in a changing climate.

Stanford Scientists Discover a Remarkable Way To Rescue Dying Corals in Just Seven Weeks

Bleached corals fully recovered within seven weeks after brief contact with healthy clones in laboratory tests, suggesting a possible way to speed reef restoration. Warm water can...

Egypt’s Climate-Resilient ‘Super Corals’ Are Starting to Feel the Heat

Scientists can’t agree why reefs in the Red Sea have long been immune to bleaching. The answer could be the key to saving these tough corals as climate change begins taking its tol...

The Coral That Heals

A bleached coral, stripped of its color and slowly starving, can come back to life in just seven weeks -- if it is placed in contact with a healthy twin. Researchers at Stanford Un...

Could Coral Bleaching Be Reversed Quickly? Some Scientists Think So

Scientists may have figured out a new method for restoring coral reefs stricken with bleaching caused by climate change-induced marine heat waves.

Report: Global coral cover falls 9.5% as reefs struggle to recover

The world's coral reefs are under increasing pressure, with recovery periods between mass bleaching events becoming shorter and coral cover declining, according to a report publish...

Marine life on the brink? 96% of coral reefs could face collapse by 2075

The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently highlighted the alarming vulnerability of coral reefs, predicting that by 2075, nearly all shallow-water coral systems m...

All tropical coral reefs could collapse within 50 years

Shallow-water coral reefs are at high risk of disappearing by 2075, the IUCN has warned at a UN biodiversity conference. The loss would decimate fisheries and speed up coastal eros...

Almost all coral reef ecosystems face risk of collapse in 50 years, study warns

The world’s coral reef ecosystems almost all face a high risk of collapse in the next 50 years mostly due to warming oceans and heat waves, according to a global assessment release...

Bleached Coral Rebounded After Touching Healthy Coral, Study Finds

After sick corals were placed in direct contact with healthy ones of the same genetic make-up, they recovered at “incredible” speed, scientists found.

Almost all coral reef ecosystems face risk of collapse in 50 years, study warns

The world’s coral reef ecosystems almost all face a high risk of collapse in the next 50 years mostly due to warming oceans and heat waves, according to a global assessment release...

Corals show El Nino intensifying as planet warms: study

Coral skeleton records stretching back 1,000 years show El Nino episodes are intensifying as the planet warms, carrying major implications for a future under climate change, accord...

Coral Reefs Are Running Out of Time to Recover, Research Find

Rising sea temperatures mean reefs don’t have enough time to bounce back between intense heat waves, a new report warns.

Nearly all the world’s coral reefs are at risk of collapse within 50 years, IUCN warns

Nearly every shallow-water coral reef ecosystem on Earth is at high risk of ecological collapse by 2075, according to the first coral reef assessment of the IUCN Red List of Ecosys...

Coral Reefs May Not Grow Fast Enough To Keep Pace With Rising Seas

Corals may be unable to keep up with rapidly rising sea levels, threatening marine wildlife and coastal communities

I.U.C.N. Red List Classifies Most Shallow Coral Reefs as Critically Endangered

If climate change continues apace, 96 percent of shallow coral reef ecosystems may collapse within 50 years, including in Australia’s Great Barrier reef.