{"id":9520,"date":"2020-05-06T09:21:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T06:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=9520"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:03","slug":"coral-reef-resilience-key-to-support-the-underwater-cities-threatened-by-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/05\/06\/coral-reef-resilience-key-to-support-the-underwater-cities-threatened-by-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral Reef Resilience Key To Support The Underwater Cities Threatened By Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world is figuring out how to move forward in the face of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019\">COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>&nbsp;by finding newer ways to support economic development, animal and human well being, and ecosystem integrity. As the priority in many parts of the world is to stay home, safe and healthy, work continues to address the ongoing crisis of nature loss which also threatens long-term health and prosperity. In fact, nature, now more than ever, is sending warning signals calling for our attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One such warning is from the Great Barrier Reef along Australia&#8217;s northeast coast. In March 2020,\u00a0the area suffered a third mass coral bleaching event in five years\u00a0due to increasingly warmer temperatures recorded in February 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There have also been\u00a0reports that widespread bleaching in the first quarter of the year\u00a0has also occurred in East Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coral reef scientists predict that bleaching events will be more frequent, more widespread and more severe. For instance, the 2017\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wedocs.unep.org\/bitstream\/handle\/20.500.11822\/22048\/Coral_Bleaching_Futures.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\"><em>Coral Bleaching Futures<\/em><\/a>\u00a0report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) predicted, \u201cIncreasingly coral bleaching would be among the greatest threats to coral reefs due to climate change.\u201d Annual Severe Bleaching (ASB) is projected to occur within this century for 99 per cent of the world\u2019s coral reefs. The average projected year of ASB is 2043, the report adds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/coral-reef-resilience-key-support-underwater-cities-threatened-climate\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is figuring out how to move forward in the face of the&nbsp;COVID-19 pandemic&nbsp;by finding newer ways to support economic development, animal and human well being, and ecosystem integrity.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}