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.

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.

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

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 ...