Scientific authorities said on Wednesday that disastrous with a record-high ocean temperature of the world’s coral reef regions had been affected by large-scale bleaching, sometimes by twisting a ghost Pale Hue to a ghostly rocks, scientific authorities said on Wednesday.
Bleaching is triggered by discrepancies in water temperature that causes coral to expel the colorful algae living in their tissue. Without the help of algae in giving nutrients to the coral, corals cannot survive.
The world’s fourth month bleaching event, which was declared by scientists a year ago, has shown some signs of slowing down that refers to Reef Health.
Instead, it has become the most widespread on records, with 84% Reef regions – from the Indian Ocean to Atlantic to Pacific – subjected to acute heat stress for the expected period of bleaching by March 2025.
The last year was the hottest on the record and the first to reach the first, unprecedented ocean temperature to reach 1.5 ° C warmer compared to pre-industrial time and triple the previous record number of marine heatwaves worldwide.
Melani McField, a marine scientist working in Caribbean, said, “The horrors and boundary of heat stress is shocking.” “Some rocks that had survived the stress of big heat by now and we thought that in 2024 partially panicked to deadly people.”
“Bleaching is always terrible – such as a silent snowfall has landed on the rock,” she said.
In the previous events in 1998, 2010 and 2014-17, 21%, 37% and 68% rocks respectively saw, which were subject to bleaching-level heat stress respectively.
The maritime biologist warned earlier last year that the world’s rocks were on a large-scale bleaching after the summer-bracing ocean months after the summer change of human-induced climate change and the El Nino climate pattern, which produces unusual warm ocean temperatures along the equator and in the Pacific.
In December 2024, a weak La Nina pattern, usually the cooler ocean temperature, hoped scientists that the coral could be cured, but it last only last three months.
Instead, bleaching continues to spread, NOAA Coral Reef Watch Coordinator Derek Manzello said. The Solomon Island and Papua New Guinea were recently added to the list of 82 countries and regions, which record bleaching-level heat stress in their water.
Scientists will take years to understand the global boundary of coral rock death, but they say that they have already seen a broader mortality with the Caribbean, the Red Sea and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia.
