urrent predictions using global climate models suggest that
severe bleaching will occur annually on 99 percent of reefs
worldwide within this century if we fail to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, while some locations will start to experience annual
bleaching by 2043. Are there ways we might still save the reefs?C
August 2016: Dead, algae-covered corals and very
few fishes, the results of the strongest, longest El Niño
event ever recorded.A school of Pyramid Butterflyfish
(Hemitaurichthys polylepis)
and Thompson’s Surgeonfish
(Acanthurus thompsoni) darting
across a healthy reeftop.