Coral Bleaching

Life without coral reefs would be completely different then it is today. Coral reefs are dying throughout the entire world from many different causes such as overfishing, global climate change, coastal development, and pollution. If these things continue coral reefs will become extinct in no time. The major cause of these coral reefs dying out is coral bleaching. Due to the elevated temperatures of the sea from global climate change is causing the coral reefs to become bleached. Although coral bleaching has always been a slight problem there has been a mass coral bleaching problem on a huge scale recently and it is causing the number of coral reefs to decline. Pollution, high UV radiation levels, and cooling or warming of the waters where the coral live are huge factors of coral bleaching. Now that these things have become more common so has the coral bleaching and it has to stop.