Photo via Sarah Depper As much as 95% of the corals in the Philippines have suffered bleaching after the 2009-2010 El Niño event that boosted the temperatures in the Indian Ocean and waters off Southeast Asia during the beginning of this year. Warmer water is often responsible for bleaching (the die-off of symbiotic algae living on the corals) and we usually hear about corals impacted in the Caribbean. But such a massive bleaching as this in the Philippines is a rare and particularly distressing news item as the possibility for recovery of b… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Massive Coral Bleaching Damages 95% of Corals in Philippines
