It’s more than 100 feet long, at least 300 years old and visible from space. The world’s largest coral has just been discovered in the southwest Pacific Ocean, scientists announced Wednesday ...

This bleaching event, which began in 2023, has been so severe that NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch program has had to add levels to its bleaching alert scale to account for the growing risk of coral death.

Since the early 1980s, scientists say, coral bleaching events have increased in frequency and severity as the burning of fossil fuels drives up the planet’s temperature.

Research team discovers world's largest coral in southwest Pacific. A group of scientists working aboard a research vessel in the southwest Pacific Ocean has discovered the world’s largest coral.

World’s largest bleaching event on record has harmed 84% of coral reefs. Bleached coral dies when exposed to heat stress for too long, threatening the bountiful marine ecosystem that depends on ...