Climate change is decimating the likelihood of survival for a large portion of the world's coral reefs, according to new ...

Randy Kosaki, NOAA’s chief scientist aboard the Oscar Elton Sette research vessel, looks out at Nihoa as the ship cruises ...

The heat has caused widespread coral bleaching deemed the "most severe in the state's history," Derek Manzello, the coordinator of NOAA's Coral ... 4. The Hawaiian reefs Hawaii's coral reefs ...

The result is coral bleaching, leaving reefs ghostly white. Scientists at NOAA regularly track ocean temperatures to see what percentage of the world’s coral are experiencing bleaching-level ...

especially in Maui and west Hawaii. The same conditions that produce extensive reefs in leeward Maui also make them vulnerable to bleaching, explained Rusty Brainard, chief of NOAA’s Coral Reef ...

The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa ...

Threat level: NOAA and the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) said bleaching has been documented in at least 53 countries, territories and local economies in both hemispheres since early 2023.

Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Watch ... right now across Hawaii,” about 3 degrees higher than a typical mid-August, said NOAA scientist Jamison ...

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 ...