NOAA Warns: ‘Worst Bleaching Event in History of the Planet’
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March 05, 2024
“It’s looking like the entirety of the Southern Hemisphere is probably going to bleach this year,” one scientist said.
Driven by sustained climate-fueled oceanic heating, the planet is on the brink of another mass coral bleaching event that marine biologists warn could kill large swaths of tropical reefs including significant areas of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
Scientists are sounding the alarm following months of record ocean temperatures exacerbated by the planetary emergency and the El Niño climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean.
“It’s looking like the entirety of the Southern Hemisphere is probably going to bleach this year,” Derek Manzello of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch toldReuters. “We are literally sitting on the cusp of the worst bleaching event in the history of the planet.”
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