06-08-2016, 12:23 AM
This is not just a "local" issue, coral reefs are dying all over the planet. I don't know how this could be a surprise to anyone, scientists and divers have been sounding the alarm for months, if not years. Well over a third of the Great Barrier reef is dead already, Jarvis Island in the Pacific Remote Island Marine National Monument has had virtually all of its corals die and this last El Nino seems to have been the tipping point for coral reef health.