Devastating coral bleaching will be more common, start earlier and last longer unless we cut emissions
- Written by Camille Mellin, Senior Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide
Sarah_lewis/ShutterstockCoral bleaching is becoming much more common as a result of increasingly severe and frequent marine heatwaves. Four global mass bleaching events have happened since 1998. Two of these were in the past decade.
Unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut to slow global warming, our new research shows that, by 2080, coral bleaching...
