The latest news on healthcare advancements and research, as well as personal wellness tips. So many Tennessee quilt shops to choose from! You're bound to find just the perfect fabric and pattern for your next quilt! Some people are fans of the Tennessee Titans. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Tennessee Titans. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the. Some Good News on Coral Reefs for a Change. A global coral bleaching event that’s been killing reefs around the world since early 2. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. That said, reefs aren’t out of hot water yet. For nearly three years, coral reefs—which grow mainly in warm, tropical waters near the equator—have suffered a mass bleaching event due to excessive heat. Coral, a squishy animal wrapped in a crunchy exoskeleton that contains colorful algae called zooxanthellae, has a tendency to evict its photosynthetic roommates when the water gets just a few degrees too warm. Seeing as those roommates provide coral with all of its food, this is bad news. It causes the coral to turn a ghostly white, and eventually, starve. That’s what’s been happening around the world since the beginning of 2. NOAA declared a global bleaching event, the third on record. Since then, we’ve seen massive coral die- offs in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, as well as reefs in Florida, Hawaii, and across the South Pacific. A satirical eulogy to the Great Barrier Reef went viral last year, and, as if it underscore how truly dire things are, loads of people thought it was real. Now, after nearly three years of stewing in overheated water—due in part to a strong El Ni. NOAA’s latest coral bleaching heating stress outlook, which uses ocean temperature data from satellites and climate models, shows that temperatures in all three major ocean basins—the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian—are simmered down to the point that a global bleaching event is no longer likely. Scientists will continue to monitor temperatures over the coming months to confirm that the bleaching event is, in fact, over. Last week was a sad one for the planet, but buried beneath headlines of the history’s largest. As this latest bleaching event showed, coral reefs, which support roughly 2. And as long as humans keep dumping billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year, temperatures will keep rising. Bleaching events are expected to become more frequent and more severe in a warming world, leaving reefs less time to recover in between bouts of starvation. Plus, as NOAA notes, certain coral reefs, including reefs in Hawaii and the Caribbean, continue to be at risk for bleaching this summer.“We’re hoping a lot of reefs will get some time to recover before the next bleaching comes,” Mark Eakin, Coral Reef Watch Coordinator at NOAA, told Gizmodo.
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