Coral reefs articles within Nature Geoscience

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  • Article |

    Internal waves can relieve coral reef heat stress, according to an analysis that isolates the effect at different depths using a compilation of high-resolution temperature records.

    • Alex S. J. Wyatt
    • , James J. Leichter
    •  & Toshi Nagata
  • Letter |

    Multi-decadal variability in coral growth rates has been documented throughout the Caribbean over the past 150–200 years. Analyses of observational and model data suggest that anthropogenic aerosols were a key driver of variations in coral growth in the western Caribbean in the second half of the twentieth century.

    • Lester Kwiatkowski
    • , Peter M. Cox
    •  & Hector M. Guzman
  • News & Views |

    The effect of rising greenhouse-gas emissions on climate is not uniform across the globe. An analysis of the mechanisms behind model-projected changes in ocean temperature gives greater confidence in the pattern of tropical warming and its potential impacts.

    • Amy C. Clement
    • , Andrew C. Baker
    •  & Julie Leloup