Corals Are Once Again Bleaching En Masse, but Their Fate Isn’t Sealed
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:48.2 | Earlier this month, |
| 0:49.2 | the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| 0:51.8 | and the International Coral Reef Initiative |
| 0:54.1 | confirmed that the world's fourth planet-wide mass-whoral bleaching event is |
| 0:57.9 | underway. Over the past 14 months scientists have documented significant |
| 1:02.2 | bleaching in every major ocean basin. |
| 1:04.4 | Some say that as already record-breaking sea surface temperatures continue to rise |
| 1:09.4 | this is on track to become the worst mass bleaching event ever recorded. |
| 1:14.0 | This is science quickly, and I'm Megan Bartels. |
| 1:19.6 | Joining me is Terry Hughes, a marine biologist at James Cook University in Australia. |
| 1:27.0 | Thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:29.0 | Could you start by just telling us why coral reefs are such important ecosystems? |
| 1:33.2 | Yeah, coral reefs are an absolutely critical ecosystem to many hundreds of millions of people |
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