Sentences with phrase «few bleached corals»

Possibly the depth is a factor in this dive site having so many healthy and colourful corals with just a few bleached corals here and there.

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Study co-author, James Cook University Professor Sean Connoly, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE), said this will make it more difficult for larger systems to recover after cyclones and coral bleaching because fewer larvae will disperse from other rCoral Reef Studies (Coral CoE), said this will make it more difficult for larger systems to recover after cyclones and coral bleaching because fewer larvae will disperse from other rCoral CoE), said this will make it more difficult for larger systems to recover after cyclones and coral bleaching because fewer larvae will disperse from other rcoral bleaching because fewer larvae will disperse from other reefs.

Over the last few decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the Great Barrier Reef, which has lost more than a quarter of its corals in the last three decades, due to bleaching brought on by climate change, storms and coral - munching starfish — and quite possibly even sunscreen.

What I did witness was an array of bleached and damaged coral and a few fish intermittenly (I did see a Paris Nights Angelfish - my favorite, so that saved the trip a bit).

Over the years there have been several technologies developed to tackle the issue of coral reef destruction, like robots that repair coral reefs after being impacted by trawling, but this one is one of the few specifically addressing coral bleaching.

ONLY recently, three surveys conducted showed an estimated 175,000 fewer tourists could visit Australia based on the coral bleaching threat.

Likewise species inhabiting our warmest waters have undergone the fewest episodes of severe coral bleaching.

The net conclusion is that mass coral bleaching will increase over the next few decades until it becomes a yearly event (well, as long as coral lasts!).

As recently as a few thousand years ago, sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the South China Sea were at least 2 °C warmer than they are today, and mass coral death events routinely occurred due to severe bleaching.

An increase in ocean temperatures of just a few degrees can destroy huge areas of coral reefs through bleaching — a stress response that causes a coral to lose its colorful and protective colony of nutrient - gathering algae.

When the surface temperature of the ocean gets warmer or colder by even a few degrees, massive bleaching — a sign of coral death — can occur.

They identify a few «thresholds» that are dangerous for certain processes — 2.7 ºC local for melting Greenland; coral bleaching above 1 ºC global.

Simmons and the youth he works with have observed first - hand changes to their country over the past few years; longer droughts and dry seasons, shorter but more intense rainy seasons, bleaching of coral reefs as well as stronger hurricanes.