World's Reefs Caught Up in the Longest Global Coral Bleaching Event Ever Recorded

EcoWatch
Jan 15, 2017, 9:29 am129 pts
By Tim Radford Some time this century, if humans go on burning fossil fuels at the present rate, severe bleaching will hit 99 percent of coral reefs every year . Coral bleaching happens when the organisms become uncomfortably hot, and reject the algae on which their lives ultimately depend. Since it takes a…

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