In 2018, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution revealed that, during the 2015/16 El Nino, 95% of corals bleached through heat stress around Jarvis Island in the equatorial Pacific. Upon investigating the reef further, they also found that the reef recovered from past severe bleaching events, though the 2015/16 event was the severest on record, … Continue reading Coral Bleaching Update; It’s Not As Bad As We Thought