07/23/2026
New research led by Climate Central shows that human-caused climate change — not El Niño — is the primary driver of global coral bleaching.
Published in The Oceanography Society (TOS), scientists found that nearly every global bleaching event over the past 40 years would not have occurred without human-caused warming.
🪸The evidence is reef-reshingly clear. Dive in: https://tos.org/oceanography/article/quantifying-the-role-of-climate-change-in-driving-mass-coral-bleaching
