How hot will 2021 be? Looking back, 2020 was tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, making it the sixth in a series of exceptionally warm years starting in 2015, and 2011-2020 was the warmest decade recorded on the planet. This low level of bleaching was confirmed by […]
Coastal upwelling is common along the Tanzanian and Kenyan shelves during the North-East monsoon. It is caused by an intensification of the wind and leads to the cool and nutrient-rich waters being brought to the surface followed by enhanced primary production and widespread phytoplankton blooms. This year, it appears that […]
On 9 July 2018 the scenarios for the future of the Western Indian Ocean/East and Southern Africa were launched at the Science-Policy forum of the Nairobi Convention in Durban, South Africa.
Will a financial portfolio approach help to minimize losses to the world’s coral reefs, and those that depend on, them due to climate change? This is the objective of the research and conservation teams in the 50 reefs project and supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Paul G. Allen Foundation and The […]
In 2018, the 3rd International Year of the Reef, CORDIO is keeping up with its mandate that it began in 2007, of producing the bi-monthly Western Indian Ocean bleaching alerts during the regional summer.
Over 70 organizations and individuals responded to the coral bleaching event in 2016 in the Western Indian Ocean, reporting 680 observations of through an online reporting form. Dr. David Obura and Mishal Gudka of CORDIO East Africa (CORDIO EA), supported through the Biodiversity Project of the Indian Ocean Commission, present […]
2015 has already been marked as the hottest year on record, and this is after 2014 having been a near-record year and the last five years being the hottest ever. These are in contrast to 1998, which was the year when Indian Ocean corals bleached and suffered mass mortality. Associated […]
