Coral Bleaching

NOAA Confirms Major Global Bleaching Event due to Climate Change

04/16/2024

Greetings to you! Unfortunately, I have breaking news on our oceans heating up from climate change. NOAA just reported that bleaching-level heat stress, which is monitored by the Coral Reef Watch (CRW) “continues to be extensive across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean basins. This is the fourth global...

Florida Key Water Sizzles at Record-Breaking Temperatures Killing Coral

07/27/2023

Greetings! The entire globe is sizzling. But adding more fuel to the fire is record-breaking water temperatures in Manatee Bay, Florida. Earlier this week, a “buoy in Manatee Bay recorded a temperature of more than 100 degrees for two straight days.” As the waters...

Record Ocean Temperatures are Boiling off the Charts!

05/16/2023

Greetings! Wow – ocean temperatures skyrocketed in March to their highest levels ever recorded! Gregory C. Johnson, an oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said, “It’s remarkable. This is another milestone.” Matthew England, professor of ocean and climate dynamics at the University...

Announcing an Extraordinary Under Water Christmas Tree?

12/20/2022

Happy Holidays! Clearly, Christmas trees are a normal part of our Holiday celebration. Now imagine a Christmas tree that lives its entire life underwater! With that said, here’s some very cool and interesting news for you. These living organisms living under the...

World Oceans Day Breaches Rising Tide of Unsettling News

06/08/2022

Greetings! World Oceans Day is a time to celebrate the seas, which make up more than 70% of our planet. While it is a time to admire the beauty that lies beneath the waves, it is also a time to be very concerned with...

Climate Change Banishes Great Barrier Reef for Sixth Time

03/29/2022

Greetings to you! In this blog, I want to continue talking about the devasting effects of climate change and how it’s affecting our environment. In particular, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is now victim to its “sixth mass bleaching due to heat stress caused by climate change,” the reef’s...

Sizzling Oceans Reached their Hottest in 2021!

01/12/2022

Greetings to you! In this blog, I’d like to continue talking about climate change and its devastating warming effect on our planet, especially our oceans. In recent report in the Advances in Atmospheric Sciences says, “Thanks to the relentless pace at which humans are adding greenhouse gases to the...

Increasing Ocean Acidification Invading Marine Life!

08/01/2018

Carbon dioxide emissions are killing off coral reefs and kelp forests as heat waves and ocean acidification continue damaging marine ecosystems. Greetings! In some of my previous blogs, I’ve been talking about the extremely harmful effects of ocean acidification. Ocean acidification occurs...

Are Coral Reefs Getting Sick from Plastic?

07/18/2018

Plastic bottles and wrappers are now littering coral reefs. A new study indicates the plastic is causing significant damage. Michael O’Neill/Science Source Greetings! I’m sure you heard the sobering news on how quickly plastic pollution is piling up in our precious ocean....

The Climate Change Invasion on Our Precious Coral Reefs!

08/03/2017

Scientists now estimate in the coral reef environment, there are about 4,000 types of fish, 800 types of corals and many hundreds of other species. Photo Courtesy – NOAA Greetings! Once again I’d like to talk about the serious subject of Climate...