Scientists concerned about rapidly waming oceans

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Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

his week, scientists registered their concern that super-warm conditions are building to a point where corals are severely threatened across the tropical Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

They did so after seeing corals lose colour across the three major ocean basins – a sign of a truly momentous global change.

This is only the third global bleaching event in recorded history.

Read what the Director of the  Global Change Institute at The University of Queensland, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, has to say on The Conversation - “The oceans are becoming too hot for coral, and sooner than we expected”.