Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84 percent of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) announced Wednesday. It’s the fourth global bleaching event since 1998, and has now surpassed bleaching from 2014-17 that hit some two-thirds of reefs, said the ICRI, a mix of more than 100 governments, nongovernment organizations and others. It’s not clear when the current crisis, which began in 2023 and is blamed on warming oceans, will end.

O'malley, I. (2025, April 27). 84 percent of the world's coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event on record. Business Mirror, p. A7.