The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that the worst bleaching of coral reefs worldwide in decades, a cycle that began in 2015, was finally easing.
NOAA said its latest forecast “shows that widespread coral bleaching is no longer occurring in all three ocean basins – Atlantic, Pacific and Indian – indicating the likely end to the global coral bleaching event.”
Described by NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch Coordinator C. Mark Eakin as “the most widespread, longest and perhaps the most damaging on record,” the coral bleaching event is attributed to hotter sea temperatures brought on by the 2015-2016 El Nino, according to the AP story…
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