Coral reefs suffer fourth global bleaching event as climate change warms oceans

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At least 54 countries and territories have experienced mass bleaching among their reefs since February 2023.

A researcher takes samples of corals she planted in December 2022 that have now already bleached fully in Miami, Florida.

Announcement of the latest global bleaching event was made jointly by Noaa and the International Coral Reef Initiative , a global intergovernmental conservation partnership. “What is happening is new for us, and to science,” said marine ecologist Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

“They’re going into a decline that we cannot stop, unless we really stop carbon dioxide emissions” that are driving climate change, Dr Obura added.

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