Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

An international report from climate scientists suggests tipping points for coral reefs have been reached, putting them at risk of dieback.

An international report from climate scientists suggests tipping points for coral reefs have been reached, putting them at risk of dieback.

New 5-km Coral Bleaching Products - Higher spatial resolution is the improvement to NOAA Coral Reef Watch remote-sensing products most requested by coral reef ecosystem scientists and resource managers. NOAA Coral Reef Watch and its partners have developed a new experimental daily global 5 km coral bleaching thermal stress monitoring product suite, now available on the Coral Reef Watch web site: http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite/bleaching5km/index.html.

Esta es la historia del Sistema Arrecifal Mesoamericano (SAM), y de cómo ha resistido, a pesar de un entorno cada vez más hostil.