WASHINGTON — Holding long-term global warming to 2 C — the fall-back target of the Paris climate accord — is now "impossible" ...

Due to mass coral bleaching event, 40 per cent of individual corals on a Great Barrier Reef island died in 2024 ...

The world’s nations agreed during the landmark Paris climate accord of 2015 to try to hold end-of-century warming to 1.5°C ...

SYDNEY, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- The cycle of coral bleaching on Australia's Great Barrier Reef has hit catastrophic levels, experts have warned.

Some coral species monitored had a mortality rate of 95%, with researchers observing the start of “colony collapse” where the dead skeleton detaches from the reef and turns to rubble.

Without them, the reef would quickly become a lifeless moonscape. One important algal group, benthic (bottom-dwelling) algae, rapidly grows over dead coral and other inert objects, providing a ...

resembling a dead tree branch. This coral species, known as acropora hemprichii, grows in the shallow reefs of the Maldives in tapered branches which eventually look like a bush or dome as they grow.

Marine scientists tracked coral colonies in a remote area of the Great Barrier Reef and found that corals previously more resilient to bleaching suffered devastating and fatal bleaching during ...

Coral reef research has focused on the twin evils birthed by record-high greenhouse gas emissions: warming oceans and ...