(23 Apr 2025)
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ARCHIVE: Tavernier coral nursery, Florida – 1 August 2023
1. Coral nursery
2. Various of coral being cut to be transplanted
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida – 16 April 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Melanie McField, co-chair of the Caribbean Steering Committee for the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"This latest report that’s, you know, compiled from around the globe and showing that 84% of the coral reefs have been affected by this bleaching event is just unparalleled, you know? Each mass bleaching event has gotten worse and I think it will continue to do so."
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ARCHIVE: Tavernier coral nursery, Florida – 1 August 2023
4. Various more of coral being cut to be transplanted
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Archive: Moore Reef, Gunggandji Sea Country, Queensland, Australia – 14 November 2022
5. Mid of sea turtle amongst coral
6. Various of coral at various stages of decay
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida – 16 April 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Melanie McField, co-chair of the Caribbean Steering Committee for the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network: ++COVERED++
"Coral reefs aren’t gonna last 50 years at the rate we’re going. They’re not gonna make it anywhere close to 50 years into the future."
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Silver Spring, Maryland – 15 April 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Eakin, executive secretary for the International Coral Reef Society: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"We’re seeing forecasts that temperatures are going to continue to stay high. There’s no reason that they will be dropping down. That heat stress is what causes corals to bleach and if it continues long enough or is severe enough, causes corals to die."
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ARCHIVE: Layton, Florida – 2 August 2023
9. Various of coral inside water tanks
10. Volunteer holding coral
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Silver Spring, Maryland – 15 April 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Eakin, executive secretary for the International Coral Reef Society: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"We just may never see the heat stress that causes bleaching dropping below the threshold that triggers a global (bleaching) event. So this may be the last one."
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ARCHIVE: Thinadhu, Vaavu Atoll, Maldives – 6 October 2021
12. Various of fish swimming in a reef where corals have lost their colors due to bleaching
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Silver Spring, Maryland – 15 April 2025
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Eakin, executive secretary for the International Coral Reef Society: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"The best way to protect coral reefs is to address the root cause of climate change and that means reducing the emissions, the human emissions, that are mostly from burning of fossil fuels, also from production of cement and other things. But that’s the biggest part. Everything else is looking more like a band-aid rather than a solution."
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Cheshire, Ohio – 14 April 2025
14. Various of the Gen. James Gavin Power Plant, a coal-fired power plant
STORYLINE:
Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history, the International Coral Reef Initiative announced Wednesday.
It’s the fourth global bleaching event since 1998, and has now surpassed bleaching from 2014-17 that hit some two-thirds of reefs, said the ICRI, a mix of more than 100 governments, non-governmental organizations and others. And it’s not clear when the current crisis, which began in 2023 and is blamed on warming oceans, will end.
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