{"id":2535,"date":"2025-10-22T08:58:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:58:52","slug":"mass-coral-reef-die-off-sounds-ecological-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/mass-coral-reef-die-off-sounds-ecological-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Coral Reef Die-Off Sounds Ecological Alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2025 Global Tipping Points Report, led by the University of Exeter in the UK, confirms that warm-water coral reefs have become the first Earth system to cross a climate tipping point. Global average temperatures have risen by 1.4\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels, exceeding the 1.2\u00b0C thermal tolerance threshold for coral reefs. This has triggered the fourth mass bleaching event between 2023 and 2025, affecting 84.4% of coral reefs and causing a 70% loss of live coral cover in parts of the Caribbean Sea. The report warns that if warming cannot be kept below 1.5\u00b0C, 16 critical systems\u2014including the Amazon rainforest and Greenland ice sheet\u2014face the risk of cascading collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 Global Tipping Points Report, led by the University of Exeter in the UK, confirms that warm-water coral reefs have become the first Earth system to cross a climate tipping point. Global average temperatures have risen by 1.4\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels, exceeding the 1.2\u00b0C thermal tolerance threshold for coral reefs. This has triggered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-protection"],"views":117,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}