Coral Bleaching Outlook for 2016

Eric Keibler   Dec 08, 2015

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      October 2015-January 2016: NOAA
standard 4-month bleaching outlook shows a
      threat of bleaching continuing in the
     Caribbean, Hawaii and, Kiribati, and
  potentially expanding into the Republic of the
        Marshall Islands. (Credit: NOAA)
[From Kelly Drinin, NOAA]  NOAA’s standard 4-month bleaching outlook shows a threat of bleaching continuing in the Caribbean, Hawaii and Kiribati, and potentially expanding into the Republic of the Marshall Islands. (Credit: NOAA)
As record ocean temperatures cause widespread coral bleaching across Hawaii, NOAA scientists confirm the same stressful conditions are expanding to the Caribbean and may last into the new year, prompting the declaration of the third global coral bleaching event ever on record….[READ MORE]

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