The report found 97% of 60,000 coral reef locations risked bleaching across the timeframe studied, with "drastic increases" expected to follow.
Terry Hughes, a professor at Australia's James Cook University and the convener of the National Coral Bleaching Taskforce, said the data reflected the worst widespread bleaching across the reef ever seen.
Our analyses highlight great geographic variation in the impact of coral bleaching across the region, with the Seychelles suffering the greatest in terms of coral loss and associated effects on fish, and the Mascarene Islands (Réunion and Mauritius) suffering the least.
Next, spray the bleach solution across the entire surface of what you are cleaning until it is soaked and let it sit for 15 minutes.
Unlike conventional, widefield-based fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) systems, Olympus' cellFRAP employs a diffraction-limited laser spot for high-intensity and precise positioning of the bleaching region across the full field of view (FOV).
"The two markers we identified can be used for spatial mapping of relative bleaching tolerance across the reef, and they can also be used to identify relatively tolerant colonies which could be used for selective breeding or translocation of corals, if managers wished to implement such strategies," said van Oppen.
And bleach for the lavatory.
In fact, during a recent trip to Dan's apartment, I was touched when I stumbled across a secret bleach pot accessorized with a stiff wire brush, hidden in a closet.
"If annual severe bleaching was happening across 98% of global reefs, it is very unlikely the Great Barrier Reef would be maintained".
In late November 2015, as corals across the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef started to bleach white, the game was finally up.
