The Marshalls group has more than twice as many ... (half as large as New York City) of sand, coral and coconut palm are scattered over 150,000 sq. mi. (as large as Montana) of blue water.

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 recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative ...

The Marshall Islands are located in the west-central ... “Bikar and Bokak’s coral reefs are a time machine, like diving in the ocean of 1,000 years ago,” says Enric Sala, founder of National ...

The impacted reefs span at least 83 countries and territories. The world's coral reefs are in the midst of the fourth and largest global bleaching event in recorded history, the National Oceanic ...