A stark white skeleton is left behind and the weakened coral is at heightened risk of dying. The bleaching event has been so severe that NOAA's Coral Reef Watch program has had to add levels to ...

Much of Hawaii's coral reefs are dying, turning bleached white, due to rising temperatures and chemicals brought into the ocean by tourists through items such as sunscreen, according to marine experts ...

The rainbow world of the Great Barrier Reef may fade away. Scientists say rising sea temperatures worldwide are causing more coral bleaching — the draining of color when the fragile animals that ...

The world's rainbow reefs have gone ghostly white ... global coral bleaching event ever" has so far struck 84 per cent of the world's reefs and is ongoing, the International Coral Reef Initiative ...

Chasing Coral ... coral reef experts. Coral bleaching refers to the occurrence of coral expelling “the algae living in their tissues causing the coral to turn completely white,” according ...

Aerial surveys detected catastrophic coral ... white, and if stressed for too long, they will die. When UNESCO scientists conducted recent aerial surveys of the reef using helicopters and fixed ...

A coral disease known as 'white syndrome' is the latest threat to the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland's coast. An Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) survey shows it is causing major ...