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Sixty major episodes of coral bleaching have occurred between 1979 and 1990, [58] [59] with the associated coral mortality affecting reefs in every part of the world. In 2016, the longest coral bleaching event was recorded. [60] The longest and most destructive coral bleaching event was because of the El Niño that occurred from 2014 to 2017. [61]
The NOAA coral reef authority declared the global bleaching event in April 2024, making it the fourth of its kind since 1998. The previous record from the 2014 to 2017 mass bleaching affected just ...
Huge stretches of coral reef around the world are turning a ghostly white this year amid record warm ocean temperatures. On Monday, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
Coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time, top reef scientists declared Monday, a result of warming ocean waters amid human-caused climate change. Coral ...
Hawaii's coral reefs (e.g. French Frigate Shoals) are a major factor in Hawaii's $800 million a year marine tourism and are being affected negatively by coral bleaching and increased sea surface temperatures, which in turn leads to coral reef diseases. The first large-scale coral bleaching occurred in 1996 and in 2004 it was found that the sea ...
Coral bleaching is also a major threat to all types of coral. Coral bleaching is when the coral expels the zooxanthella that they feed on, which causes them to turn white, hence "bleaching." Corals can not live long in this state, yet if environmental conditions return to normal, then the zooxanthella can return and the coral will return ...
The last global coral bleaching event happened in 2014 and lasted until 2017. More than 56% of global reef areas saw temperatures that could cause bleaching during that time period.
Coral bleaching in Oahu has been on the rise since 1996, when Hawaii's first major coral bleaching occurred in Kaneohe Bay, followed by major bleaching events in the Northwest islands in 2002 and 2004. [1] In 2014, biologists from the University of Queensland observed the first mass bleaching event, and attributed it to The Blob. [2]