A record-setting marine heat wave stripped huge portions of Florida's coral reef of their colors in 2023, triggering the ninth and worst mass bleaching event in the Caribbean. Temperatures soared for ...

A record-setting marine heat wave stripped huge portions of Florida's coral reef of their colors in 2023, triggering the ninth and worst mass bleaching event in the Caribbean. Temperatures soared for ...

A dying thicket of acropora cervicornis, or staghorn coral, in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, on Sept. 11, 2023, with some branches completely bleached and others having already died. / (Shedd ...

Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the Pacific Northwest coast. Cool water welling up from the depths is thought to be ...

After 10,000 years, they're now gone. Nearly all of Florida’s critically endangered Acropora coral colonies are now dead, after a record-breaking ocean heat wave in 2023. This marks the species’ ...

This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Thirty-four people died from heat-related ...

This joint report from Climate Central and World Weather Attribution conducts a global analysis of how extreme heat has changed since the signing of the 2015 Paris Agreement and how current pledges to ...

Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem. By Catrin Einhorn After a searing ocean ...

With a long list of heat waves in Canada in 2025, it should come as no surprise that some of events this year have been linked to human-caused climate change--similar to affairs that occurred in 2024.

A stubborn mid-October heat wave across Texas has been fueled by a weather pattern that has trapped warm air from the Gulf Coast far northward into Canada in a setup more typical of midsummer than ...

Elkhorn and staghorn corals used to carpet Florida’s reef system, rising like antlers from the seabed — but not anymore. These crucial coral species are now “functionally extinct” in the region after ...