The impacts of warming global temperatures are having a catastrophic effect on the planet's coral reefs, a new report has concluded. Released Wednesday, the findings from the International Coral Reef Initiative revealed that 84% of the world's coral reefs have been impacted by a bleaching event that started in 2023 and remains ongoing.

Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history

The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) announced that bleaching-level heat stress has impacted more than 80% of the world's coral reefs in the fourth global coral bleaching event.