While rising sea temperatures are bleaching coral around the globe, the reef in the Gulf of Aqaba is bountiful, colourful and healthy. Scientists want to know why.
Australian scientists are working with counterparts in Israel and Jordan to find out why coral in the Gulf of Aqaba is thriving despite rising temperaturesUp to half of the Great Barrier Reef has been affected by bleaching
Unlike corals in the Great Barrier Reef and elsewhere, the corals in the northern part of the Red Sea are not bleaching and dying when the sea temperature rises.Bleaching, the phenomenon caused by global warming, has been one of the main reasons half of the world's coral reefs have died in the past three decades.
But in the northern Gulf of Aqaba, where Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia share the coast, the corals are bountiful, colourful and healthy despite rising carbon dioxide and warming seas. "We're seeing corals that are resilient to five, six degrees — even more degrees above summer maximum," Professor Maoz Fine, from Israel's Bar Ilan University, said.
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