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 ...

A team of environmental scientists at Duke University, working with colleagues from the University of New South Wales, the ...

Waves splashing over the reef at sunrise on Hutchinson Island ... than half of their coral cover. In southeast Florida, coastal resources are under intense stress from high population densities ...

Scientists from the University of Sydney tracked 462 coral colonies at the reef’s One Tree Island over the course ... and co-author of the study. “The high rates of mortality and disease ...

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 ... get too high or low, causing ...

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 ...

The coral fragment from the seafloor ... Thuhufa recalled an uninhabited island she visited for volunteer research work in ...

with a coral reef, white-sand beaches and swaying palms, but also has a dark history of foreign domination. For decades the island's economy was dominated by phosphate, a sought-after material ...

Instead, Darwin looked to the low-lying islands fringed by coral reefs, such as those in the Maldives. He heard stories from the residents of islands lost through earthquakes and erosion.