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Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land ...
"Many [deep-sea corals] live for hundreds of years, with some colonies living over 4,000 years," NOAA says, with latest discovery revealing nearly 84,000 individual coral mound peak features.
Largest deep-sea coral reef: How it was discovered The reef is too deep to explore by scuba diving, and that's why the mapping was done using 31 multi-beam sonars, according to the news release.
Coral reef bleaching across happens when stressed coral ... by warming sea temperatures and subsequent coral bleaching. Is it possible for these sea creatures to ... deep into the Atlantic Ocean ...
The white coloring is healthy—deep-sea corals don’t rely on symbiotic algae so they can’t bleach! Credit: NOAA Unlike the colorful reefs found in sunlit tropical waters, this one is mostly made up of ...
World’s largest bleaching event on record has harmed 84% of coral reefs. Bleached coral dies when exposed to heat stress for too long, threatening the bountiful marine ecosystem that depends on ...
The new maps revealed thousands of previously unknown "mounds" of deep-sea corals, also known as cold-water corals, spread almost continuously across an area covering 6.4 million acres (2.6 ...
Because it's farther down, deep-sea reefs don't have the same problem with coral bleaching, coral that turns white from stress from environmental changes such as climate change and recent record ...
Normally, deep-sea reefs have a relatively low proportion of coral coverage, about 10-20%, per the news release. But this system stands out for its particular vigor: an estimated 50-60% live coral ...
We generally think of deep-sea corals as being relatively safe from the clutches of climate change, so when a team of scientists from the University of Plymouth first came across bleaching damage ...
The Great Barrier Reef Is Bleaching—but These Striking Deep-Sea Coral Gardens Near It Are Hanging on . Published 5 years ago ...
Signs of global-scale coral bleaching were first observed in 2023, stretching deep into this year. This underwater photo taken in the Maldives on Sept. 26, 2024 shows dead and bleached branch corals.