Scientists Launch World's First Satellite System to Watch Over Reefs
22/05/2021 Coral bleaching at Heron Island, February 2016. Photo: stopadani/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 While coral reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific region have been bleaching in response to rising sea temperatures, the reefs around Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands have mostly kept their color. But in March 2021, that all changed: the lagoon’s once-healthy reefs turned ghostly white as the water temperature rose to new highs, much to the distress of conservationists. Coral bleaching – when rising temperatures push corals to expel their life-sustaining algae – has become a problem ...
Source: science.thewire.in
