Rising ocean temperatures are devastating coral reefs worldwide as Australia's Great Barrier Reef experiences its worst summer.
Coral reefs across the world are faced with dire conditions. The rising global warming due to climate change is causing mass coral bleaching events.
“The temperatures got so warm, they’re off the charts … they never occurred before at this sort of level,” Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, the chief scientist at The Great Barrier Reef Foundation, toldIt’s not just about coral reefs either. Such widespread bleaching events could lead to the death of about a quarter of all marine species that depend on corals for their survival.
For context, both the Caribbean and Florida suffered from mass coral destruction last year, and the loss is expected to intensify in 2024.
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