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The consequences were dramatic:

🪸 Across reefs in southern Mexico, we documented >76% loss of live coral cover in just months

📉 Some reefs experienced near-total collapse of living coral communities.

This wasn’t just bleaching , it was mass mortality.

#Heatwave #Coralmortality

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March 11, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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CORAL REEF RESEARCH NEWS: Still standing but mostly dead: Recovery of dying coral reef in Moorea stalls

Read full review here: phys.org/news/2026-03...

#coralreefs #coralreefnews #coralhealth #coralmortality #habitatloss #coraldegradation #coralreefecology #marineecology #marinebiology
Still standing but mostly dead: Recovery of dying coral reef in Moorea stalls
In April 2019, a marine heat wave struck a coral reef on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia, killing much of the coral and the beneficial algae that colonized it. This "bleaching" event reduced…
phys.org
March 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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NEW CORAL RESEARCH: Nowhere to hide: massive corals’ mortality after cumulative heat stress in a putative climate change refugium (NOT OPEN ACCESS)

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#coralreefs #coralresearch #coralreefecology #coralmortality #climatechange #coralbleaching #marineecology
Nowhere to hide: massive corals’ mortality after cumulative heat stress in a putative climate change refugium - Coral Reefs
Coral reefs worldwide are under severe threat due to a combination of local stressors and escalating intensity and frequency of heatwaves, which lead to mass coral bleaching. Although turbid-zone reef...
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December 27, 2024 at 3:02 AM
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CORAL REEF NEWS: ‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’: marine ecologist on the collapse of coral reefs

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#coralreefs #coralhealth #coralmortality #coralreefdecline #climatechange #coralbleaching #overfishing #coraldisease #coralreefecology #marinebiology
July 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM