Warmer water temperatures can result in coral bleaching. When water is too warm, corals will expel the algae (zooxanthellae) living in their tissues, causing the coral to turn completely white.

Coral reefs across the globe once again endure mass bleaching amid warming oceans, scientists say Coral reef bleaching across happens when stressed coral expel the algae that are their food source ...

How bad is it? I have just returned from Ningaloo Reef, where I saw widespread bleaching and the first signs of coral mortality. Up to 90% of the coral found in shallow areas of the northern ...

"It has gone deep, it's not just the top of the reef that is bleaching. Many different species of coral are bleaching." Branching through shallow waters along Australia's western coast, the 300 ...

As coral bleaching and deaths become more widespread globally, experts show that over a third of restoration projects fail and might never be scalable enough to have positive effects on reef ...

In 2016, a world-wide coral bleaching event devastated the reef, especially in its pristine northern reaches where the effect was deemed "catastrophic." Now, as the reef faces yet another ...

Laboratory experiments confirm the accuracy of numerical modeling in simulating coral bleaching, according to new research from Southern Cross University. The mechanistic bleaching model was ...

Record ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on ...

“It has gone deep, it’s not just the top of the reef that is bleaching. Many different species of coral are bleaching.” Branching through shallow waters along the Western Australia coast ...

A recent survey of 21 sites across the Ningaloo Reef suggests a coral death rate between 1 to 5 per cent. Bleaching old-growth corals have highlighted the extent of the damage. Scientists say a ...

"It has gone deep, it's not just the top of the reef that is bleaching. Many different species of coral are bleaching." The episode is part of an ongoing, fourth global coral bleaching event that ...