Canaries in the Coal Mine
Elsie Lee-Robbins2023
Featured in the Dear Nightingale challenge called "Raveling Data".
Coral reefs are the canaries in the coal mine, and they are dying. Warming oceans caused a global bleaching event from 2014 to 2017, which resulted in bleaching-level heat stress for 75% of global reefs; with 30% of them dying (NOAA).