Carian mengenai topik Corals

Bleaching is triggered by water temperature anomalies that cause corals to expel the colorful algae living in their tissues.

Scientists believe overfishing, pollution and rising water temperatures because of climate change may be making the reefs more vulnerable to yellow-band disease.

In the absence of nutrient pollution, overfishing, bottom trawling, physical damage from tourism, the reef corals survive to ocean warming.

The stark reality is that there is no safe limit of global warming for coral reefs, says lead author Adele Dixon.

A new study identified genes in the microbiome of certain types of corals that may play a role in how reefs respond to heat stress.

Concerns are growing over lotions, used as protection from the tropical sun, are harming delicate, slow-growing corals.

Human activity is helping destroy the equivalent of a soccer field of these seagrasses every 30 minutes around the world.

Scientists found that corals with yellow-green colour morph were the most resilient to climate change.

Half of Taiwan's reefs have been hit by bleaching with 31 per cent so badly impacted that they are dying and probably beyond saving.

Only the corals undisturbed by human stress factors such as water pollution were more likely to survive the heatwave.

The corals were discovered on deep seamounts and ridges in the mineral-rich Prime Crust Zone.

Other than muddy sediment, the dive site may consist dead corals, house or fish farm wrecks and other man made items that are trapped underwater.