Researchers race to understand disease killing #Caribbeancorals at unprecedented rates
Corals, like humans, sometimes get sick. But stony coral tissue loss disease #SCTLD is different, researchers say. It afflicts an unprecedented number of species, has spread over a vast area, kills incredibly quickly. Massive coral colonies, some hundreds of years old, can die within weeks or months, leaving reefs unrecognizable
Ruth Kamnitzer
#ClimateChange #CoralReefs
#CoralBleaching
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/researchers-race-to-understand-new-disease-killing-caribbean-corals-at-unprecedented-rates/
#CoralBleaching
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No ocean, no us June 8 – World Oceans DayNo ocean, no usLet’s protect the blue that keeps us alive #manuchao #rayaenelmar #worldoceansday #whaleshark #dolphin #discoclam #coral #reef #coralbleaching
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Massive #coralbleaching along Australia’s north west coast due to #MarineHeatwave. This is what 1.5C of warming looks like. It will get worse. Meanwhile, last week Woodside’s #NorthwestShelf carbon bomb approved by Labor’s Murray Watt. #ClimateCrisis #Ningaloo #ScottReef
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/07/wa-coral-unprecedented-bleaching-event-ningaloo-reef
(East) Great Barrier Reef & (West) Ningaloo Bleaching in unison - March 2025
https://theconversation.com/synchronised-bleaching-ningaloo-and-the-great-barrier-reef-are-bleaching-in-unison-for-the-first-time-252906
June 7 2025 update on Ningaloo bleaching
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/07/wa-coral-unprecedented-bleaching-event-ningaloo-reef
What Is Coral Bleaching, And Why Is It On The Rise?
"Coral bleaching results when corals expel their colourful endosymbionts, the photosynthetic zooxanthellae, leaving the still living, but white, coral skeleton behind."
by @GrrlScientist via #Substack
#CoralBleaching #ClimateChange #SciComm https://substack.com/home/post/p-165001090
What Is Coral Bleaching, And Why Is It On The Rise?
"Coral bleaching results when corals expel their colourful endosymbionts, the photosynthetic zooxanthellae, leaving the still living, but white, coral skeleton behind."
by @GrrlScientist via #Substack
#CoralBleaching #ClimateChange #SciComm https://substack.com/home/post/p-165001090
What Is Coral Bleaching, And Why Is It On The Rise?
"Coral bleaching results when corals expel their colourful endosymbionts, the photosynthetic zooxanthellae, leaving the still living, but white, coral skeleton behind."
by @grrlscientist via #Substack
#CoralBleaching #ClimateChange #SciComm https://substack.com/home/post/p-165001090
Global coral reef bleaching hits record amid rising sea temperatures - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/l0lhJ
Mass #CoralBleaching has frequently coincided w/episodes of #ElNiño, a global #climate pattern that usually increases #temperatures. That was the case in 1998, 2016 & again last year, which was the warmest year on record.
#Oceans have been steadily absorbing rising temperatures for years, but in 2023 & 2024, temps broke records w/spikes that alarmed scientists. #Seas are also becoming more acidic as they warm, which can dissolve corals’ skeletons & make it harder for them to grow.
#ClimateCrisis
Since the early 1980s, scientists say, #CoralBleaching events have increased in frequency & severity as the burning of #FossilFuels drives up the #planet’s #temperature. #NOAA documented the first global #coral bleaching event in 1998 & the second in 2010. During the previous global event, between 2014 and 2017, 68% of the world’s #CoralReefs experienced bleaching-level #heat stress.
#ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #MarineLife #ocean #ecosystem #habitat #science #conservancy
“The ongoing global #CoralBleaching event is the biggest to date,” #NOAA scientists said.
Bleaching occurs when #heat upends the #coral’s metabolism, causing it to turn white as it expels the symbiotic algae that provide it with nutrients & color. Bleaching doesn’t mean the coral has died, but prolonged bleaching — which scientists say is made more frequent & severe by rising #sea #temperatures — can kill it.
#ClimateCrisis #MarineLife #ocean #ecosystem #habitat #science #conservancy
84% of world's coral reefs affected by worst coral bleaching event in history http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKKL3Q #CoralReef #CoralBleaching #ClimateChange #SaveOurOceans #MarineConservation
Ningaloo and #GreatBarrierReef hit by ‘profoundly distressing’ simultaneous #CoralBleaching events
Scientists say widespread damage to both world heritage-listed reefs is ‘heartbreaking’ as WA reef accumulates highest amount of #heat stress on record
Ningaloo and Great Barrier Reef hit by ‘profoundly distressing’ simultaneous coral bleaching events | Great Barrier Reef | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/23/ningaloo-and-great-barrier-reef-hit-by-profoundly-distressing-simultaneous-coral-bleaching-events
Coral bleaching risk in the Pacific looking rather bad these days https://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/product/5km/index_5km_baa-max-7d.php #coralbleaching
‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/22/catastrophic-great-barrier-reef-hit-by-its-most-widespread- coral-bleaching-study-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #ClimateEmergency #CoralBleaching #GBR
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Annual Environmental Impact of a location
= pop x consumption
It's making my head spin!
*** #CoralBleaching cycles are a new phenom. ***
When the coral stops recovering - BOOM! - less plankton, fewer little fish, fewer big fish - OCEANIC COLLAPSE...
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Coral reefs are one of the most sensitive ecosystems on Earth and greatly benefit humans and thousands of oceanic species. Widespread bleaching since the 1980s is driven by anthropogenic ocean warming. #ClimateChange #CoralBleaching
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