Sentences with phrase «though bleached corals»

Though bleached corals that haven't died can recover if the water temperature drops, older corals take longer to bounce back and likely won't have a chance to recover before the next bleaching event occurs, he said.

Not exact matches

SYDNEY (AP)-- Mass bleaching has killed more than a third of the coral in the northern and central parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, though corals to the south have escaped with little damage, scientists said on Monday.

Bleaching, though, isn't the same as coral death.

Coral bleaching is not confined to Japan alone though its corals are in serious jeopardy.

However, apparently only the more severe bleaching events cause a reduction in skeletal growth rates; for instance, one study found growth anomalies in 95 % of corals from the Mesoamerican Reef related to severe bleaching in 1998, though only a single core (of 92 collected) showed an anomaly due to a less severe event in 1995 [11].

If a coral becomes stressed, though — for instance, if the surrounding water becomes too warm — it will expel its algae, bleaching a ghostly white in the process.

Though 18 years had passed without any bleaching, a strong El Niño was now blowing its warm breath across the Pacific, draining color from the reef's spiky, tubular, and bulbous corals, leaving them pallid and skeletal.

When I started looking at this topic the first thing that struck me was just how much time is spent in the blogosphere debating the effects (real or imagined) of global temperature rise and how little time seemed to be spent on the key evidential science; as though retreating glaciers, arctic sea - ice or coral bleaching said anything about causality.

Knowledge of Global Warming Causes & Effects Weak At Best Though 87 % of Americans have heard of the greenhouse effect, only 57 % of people know that it refers to gases in the atmosphere trapping heat, with 13 % never having heard the term; 50 % of people know that global warming is mostly caused by human activity; 45 % of people understanding that CO2 traps heat; just 25 % of people have even heard the terms coral bleaching or ocean acidification.