Sentences with phrase «abnormally warm ocean waters»

For months, coral reef experts have been loudly, and sometimes mournfully, announcing that much of the treasured Great Barrier Reef has been hit by «severe» coral bleaching, thanks to abnormally warm ocean waters.

The biggest stories of 2015 were tied to the sheer number of starving pinniped pups washing ashore on our beaches due to abnormally warm ocean waters and a lack of food sources for nursing mothers and their pups.

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Every two to seven years, abnormally warm water in the Pacific Ocean causes an atmospheric disturbance called El Niño.