Sentences with phrase «year global bleaching event»

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One of these events, a global bleaching event that began in 2014 and affected at least 70 percent of the world's reefs, just ended last year.

The 3 - year duration of this latest event is unprecedented; previous bouts of global bleaching came and went within a year.

This is the third such global bleaching event in 17 years, NOAA notes.

«Millions of coastal people in the tropics have been affected by the global coral bleaching event that unfolded over the previous two years.

He says that during campaigns for the federal election held in July — after the massive bleaching event of earlier this year — both major political parties promised measures to protect the reef, but neither offered anything to address the «root cause of the problem, which is global warming.»

These elevated temperatures have led to a record third year of a global coral bleaching event.

As part of a project documenting the global bleaching event, he had surveyed Lizard Island, which sits about 90 km north of Cooktown in far north Queensland, when it was in full glorious health; then just as it started bleaching this year; then finally a few weeks after the bleaching began.

This year was the longest global coral bleaching event on record including a vast swath of the Great Barrier Reef.

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.

Prior to the 1980s there were no signs of any global coral bleaching events for the past ten thousand years, and probably much longer.

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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Nick Graham from James Cook University showed last year that almost 60 % of reefs in the Seychelles recovered after they lost 90 % of their coral following the 1998 global bleaching event.

As part of a project documenting the global bleaching event, he had surveyed Lizard Island, which sits about 90 km north of Cooktown in far north Queensland, when it was in full glorious health; then just as it started bleaching this year; then finally a few weeks after the bleaching began.