Guam avoids severe coral bleaching predicted for this year

摘要

Vulnerable coral reefs on Guam have not experienced severe bleaching that was predicted for this year, in part because of stormy weather that reduced water temperatures, officials said. The Guam Bureau of Statistics and Plans said a mass coral bleaching event indicated by satellite measurements of sea surface temperatures did not occur, Pacific Daily News reported. "We have so far been very lucky," said Whitney Hoot, a coral reef resilience coordinator with the statistics and plans bureau.