Climate Central: Beachgoers may love ocean waters that are growing balmier in a warming world, but corals, and subsequently the ecosystems they support, do not.
Rising ocean temperatures are proving detrimental to both ocean species and coral reefs, with the impact on coral perhaps most noticeably seen in bleaching. On Monday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a Coral Bleaching Outlook that forecasts the amount of bleaching that may result from ocean warming in the next four months,...