{"id":15305,"date":"2011-11-21T08:56:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T13:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15305"},"modified":"2011-11-23T22:32:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T03:32:51","slug":"climate-change-causing-mass-death-of-corals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/climate-change-causing-mass-death-of-corals","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Causing Mass Death of Corals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15314 alignnone\" title=\"coral-bleaching\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/coral-bleaching.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/coral-bleaching.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/coral-bleaching-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/coral-bleaching-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rise in ocean temperature due to global warming triggered coral bleaching, the frequency of which is increasing, which caused the mass death of corals worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The findings of a team of Australian scientists from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University showed that a complex cascade of molecular signals can lead to the self-inflicted death of corals and their symbiotic algae as the sea water begins to warm.<\/p>\n<p>Several major bleaching events happened in the last 30 years, the most recent is the 2010 across the Indian Ocean and Coral Triangle.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Great Barrier Reef, which had eight coral bleachingevents since 1980, suffered its worst in 2002 when 55% of the total reef area was affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise in ocean temperature due to global warming triggered coral bleaching, the frequency of which is increasing, which caused the mass death of corals worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[246,76,23,19,79,70,122],"class_list":["post-15305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-climate","tag-environment-2","tag-food","tag-health","tag-marine","tag-ocean","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}