Coral reefs are hotspots of biodiversity and are amazingly productive with a vast number of ... the growth of decomposers and the availability of vitamins and minerals essential to the plants and ...

The NOAA coral reef authority declared the global bleaching event in April 2024, making it the fourth of its kind since 1998. The previous record from the 2014 to 2017 mass bleaching affected just ...

Global coral reef bleaching event is largest on record, report says 03:59. Scientists say they have found the world's largest coral near the Pacific's Solomon Islands, announcing Thursday a major ...

Covering nearly 133,000 square miles (345,000 square kilometers), the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef, home to more than 1,500 species of fish and 411 species of hard corals.

As the world’s coral reefs suffer a fourth global bleaching event, heat stress in the Caribbean is accumulating even earlier than it did in 2023, the previous record year for the region ...