Warming Ocean Current Might Create Coral Refuges

LiveScience: Warming ocean water has devastating effects on coral reefs, causing coral to bleach by expelling their symbiotic algae. Image: Hughes et al. Current Biology Global warming is expected to have devastating effects on coral reefs, but recent research points to a few exceptions. Warming in the equatorial Pacific may actually create refuges for corals around a handful of islands, even as it bleaches, or kills, corals elsewhere, suggests new research that predicts increased upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich...

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