While many Indonesian reefs have remained surprisingly stable despite decades of ocean warming, this resilience has its ...
New research has revealed alarming coral mortality rates of 92% after last year's bleaching event at Lizard Island on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef, marking one of the highest coral mortality rates ...
Coral bleaching arises when thermal stress forces reef-building corals to expel their symbiotic algae, undermining primary productivity, calcification and habitat complexity. Rising greenhouse-gas ...