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
I am prompted to write this post following a long and somewhat fractious conversation at Ken Rice’s blog, ATTP, in response to a guest post by Geoff Price on coral reef bleaching. As the post referred to me personally and to a blog post I wrote on Cliscep over a year ago, I … Continue reading
The day has come. Scientists are heartbroken. Corals are as good as dead. RIP beautiful coral reefs. (sniff, sniff, *reaches for Kleenex*) For decades, marine scientists have been warning us this day would come. A new study out this week amounts to a “death warrant for coral reefs as we know them.”https://t.co/2vv30JsK4J — … Continue reading
