(The Hill) — Coral reefs around the globe experienced a mass ... parts of the South Pacific, the Persian Gulf, and the Gulf of Aden, researchers said. This marks the globe’s second bleaching ...
The Arabian/Persian Gulf is a window to future ocean conditions and working ... are comparable to worst-case ocean warming projections for many tropical coral reefs globally by 2100. John Burt said: ...
WWF has helped prepare the first map of coral reef habitats in the southeastern Arabian Gulf, highlighting some of the region's most extensive and biologically-rich marine ecosystems.
However, empirical data describing the carbonate chemistry at cold-water coral reefs are very rare. Regions of the upper slope of the Northern Gulf of Mexico harbor several deep-water reefs structured ...