2024-04-16 15:41:17
This is the fourth episode to affect this marine ecosystem since 1998, and the second in less than a decade.
This is unfortunately not a surprise, but the phenomenon seems unusual in its scale. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority in Australia, which represents around 10% of the world’s coral reef surface, had already warned of the process underway. According to the latter, the surface temperature of sea water has warmed by around 2°C in the area compared to the average of recent years, causing a new massive episode of coral reef bleaching during the last summer. austral (finished at the end of February). It turns out that the phenomenon is global. At least 53 countries from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, including the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, were victims of a bleaching episode between February 2023 and March 2024, the system reported Monday monitoring of coral reefs by Noaa, the American agency responsible for the oceans and the atmosphere.
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