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Gazette Day reports:
In the year 2016, there was a heatwave that affected many parts of the world. The extreme temperatures were especially felt in and around the continent of Australia. As a result of the heatwave, the waters around the Great Barrier Reef warmed considerably. Scientists were worried that with the oceans already warming due to global climate change, the additional heat stress might cause considerable damage to the Great Barrier Reef.
After the heatwave subsided, a team of scientists conducted tests to find out how the heatwave damaged the reef. Extensive aerial surveys were conducted. These surveys concluded that a great deal of the reef had bleaching that had killed off many parts of the reef. [...] The surveys found that 90 percent of the corals in the reef suffered at least some type of bleaching. The worst damage was on the northernmost third of the reef. In this section, much of the damage was caused by the initial rise in temperature.
The other damage occurred later. The coral reefs depend on a symbiotic relationship with a certain type of algae. Over the course of a few months after the heating event, the algae separated from the reef causing additional reef death.
During the heating event in 2016, one-third of the coral reefs in the world were bleached and damaged in some way. The reefs do have the ability to come back from this [heat-induced damage] as long as the damaging events are not too frequent.
Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0041-2) (DX)
(Score: -1, Troll) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 25 2018, @11:43PM (3 children)
Oh dear! The Micturating Blowhard is at it again, censoring Soylentils with mad abandon? Oh, the humanity!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 25 2018, @11:47PM (2 children)
The Greeks are famous for two things: philosophy and butt sex. The more you type, the more convinced I am that you should stick to butt sex.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday April 26 2018, @12:22AM (1 child)
Alas, TMB manages nothing but a Runaway retort! What sad times and poor education we have here on the SoylentNews!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 26 2018, @11:09AM
If you're going to spurn perfectly good butt sex as well as reason, there's really no point in talking to you; you're obviously insane.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.