Tag: coral reefs
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Coral Bleaching Awareness Month
Coral bleaching affects tropical coral reef habitats with often devastating and long term impacts for marine ecosystems. The news worldwide is grim with the launch of the Status and Trends of Coral Reefs and the UNEP announcement for crossing the 1.5C! When a coral is stressed the symbiotic algae known as zooxanthellae is released/ejected and…
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Hope is resilience….
Fiji and Tonga are monitoring and observing a bleaching event. For Vava’u it started in summer of 2024 and has become increasingly extensive in 2026. Corals bleach because they are under stress, these current stresses are attributed to the increased and sustained water temperatures. For the last 6 weeks, it has remained at 34C/93.2F, above…
