Harmful bleaching of the world's coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean's reefs in the most intense event of its kind in ...

South Florida’s scuba diving community and a national organization joined forces to help protect some precious marine ...

The current event, confirmed by NOAA and the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), has already surpassed the previous ...

Bleached coral dies when exposed to heat stress for too long, threatening the bountiful marine ecosystem that depends on it ...

ONE year after a tugboat and barge ran aground on a coral reef in the protected Fowl Cays National Park, the vessels remain stranded, with debris continuing to destroy critically endangered coral ...

Named after John D. Pennekamp, a former newspaper editor for the Miami Herald and noted Everglades conservationist, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park was developed in 1963 as the United States ...

executive secretary for the International Coral Reef Society and retired coral monitoring chief for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “We’re looking at something that ...

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The world's coral reefs are in the midst of the fourth and largest global bleaching event in recorded history, the National Oceanic ... 83.7% of the world's coral reef area.