Earth Equity News

Our Dying Corals. By Bryan Walsh, Time Magazine, August 29, 2010. "Everywhere, reefs are under pressure from rising sea temperatures, ocean acidification, coastal pollution and physical damage. There has already been a major coral bleaching event in Indonesia this summer, in which more than 60% of the coral off the coast of Aceh province has been affected... One of the worst mass bleaching events in history occurred in 1998 -- which, incidentally, was also one of the hottest years on record, and like 2010, an El Niño year. Globally some 16% of coral reefs died in 1998. This year -- which is on track to be the warmest year in recorded history -- could be just as bad."