Along coastlines from Australia to Kenya to Mexico, many of the world's colourful coral reefs have turned a ghostly white in what scientists have said amounted to the fourth global bleaching event in the last three decades.
Along coastlines from Australia to Kenya to Mexico, many of the world's colourful coral reefs have turned a ghostly white in what scientists have said amounted to the fourth global bleaching event in the last three decades.
For an event to be deemed global, significant bleaching must occur in all three ocean basins, the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian, within a 365-day period. "What is happening is new for us, and to science," said marine ecologist Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. "A realistic interpretation is that we have crossed the tipping point for coral reefs," said ecologist David Obura, who heads Coastal Oceans Research and Development Indian Ocean East Africa from Mombasa, Kenya.
At the end of the Southern Hemisphere summer in March, tropical reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans also began to suffer.
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