Record-breaking ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef reaching “catastrophic” levels, a new ...

Scientists have found that coral bleaching on Australia's Great Barrier Reef has reached "catastrophic" levels. More than 40% of corals monitored near an island in the southern reef were killed ...

By May, 370 of those colonies were bleached and, by July, 52% of the bleached corals were dead ... square kilometers), the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef, home to more ...

The Great Barrier Reef, a global treasure and the largest coral reef system on Earth ... “They were either covered with algae, dead, or crumbling. It’s horrible to see this happen to somewhere ...

Marine scientists from the University of Sydney yesterday have published the first peer-reviewed study documenting “catastrophic” coral bleaching events at the southern Great Barrier Reef in ...

Some coral species monitored had a mortality rate of 95%, with researchers observing the start of “colony collapse” where the dead skeleton ... the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest ...

In a new study, they track the rapid rate at which coral colonies in the Southern Great Barrier Reef faced bleaching and then death in 2024. Their alarming findings serve as a "wake-up call" for ...

By July, 53% of the bleached colonies were dead and 16% recovered ... According to the authors, coral bleaching occurs nearly every other year on the Great Barrier Reef.

Coral reefs worldwide are dying at an alarming rate, with 75% of reefs experiencing bleaching-level heat stress in the past two years. The World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef (GBR ...

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system. It stretches over 2,300 kilometres along the coast of Queensland, Australia. Made up of nearly 3,000 reefs and 900 islands ...