Sentences with phrase «first global bleaching event»
The first global bleaching event was in 1998 and the second in 2010, both in years marked by El Niños, the periodic climate phenomenon in the Pacific.
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Our arrival coincided with a bleaching episode, one that has given our team — normally based at the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia — its first opportunity to witness a large - scale event of this kind.
Cobb, who is not affiliated with the new study, had first - hand experience with the latest and most severe instance of global coral bleaching: a three - year event that hit almost every major reef system in the world and eventually decimated portions of the Great Barrier Reef.