{"id":1878,"date":"2016-04-11T18:58:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T02:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2016-04-13T10:03:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T18:03:24","slug":"coral-bleaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/news\/coral-bleaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral Bleaching"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The \u201cBleached Reef\u201d by the Institute For Figuring. Photographed at the exhibition \u201cNight Begins the Day\u201d at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n

The world’s coral reefs are experiencing the largest bleaching episode ever recorded<\/a>. Rising water temperatures are now threatening more than a third of the Earth’s reefs and coral experts say it is possible reefs may be gone in 25 years. The effects of the current El Nino (making the last 2 years the hottest on record), are being compounded by underlying global warming and other anomalous climate events. Hardest hit has been the Great Barrier Reef. During a recent aerial survey of 520 sub-reefs in its northern section, scientists at Australia’s National Coral Bleaching Task Force<\/a>\u00a0found that only 4 showed no sign of bleaching. More than 600 miles of the GBR’s previous glory has been turned into aquatic boneyards. [See photo essay.]<\/a>\u00a0“This has been the saddest research trip of my life,” says Task Force convener Professor Terry Hughes.<\/p>\n

In this time of urgency, the IFF’s Crochet Coral Reef<\/a><\/em> project remains ever-more timely; a synthesis of art and science that also calls attention to the potency of community-based action. In Fall 2016 the Crochet Coral Reef<\/em> will be on exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design<\/a><\/em> in NY. Included will be our\u00a0Bleached Reef<\/em>, a feminine handicraft elegy to the currently unfolding environmental tragedy.<\/p>\n

\"Crocheted<\/a>

Crocheted strawberry anemones (by Margaret Wertheim) nestling in the “Bleached Reef” by the Institute For Figuring. Photographed at the exhibition “Night Begins the Day: An Exploration of Space, Time and Wonder” at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The world’s coral reefs are experiencing the largest bleaching episode ever recorded. Rising water temperatures are now threatening more than a third of the Earth’s reefs and coral experts say it is possible reefs may be gone in 25 years. The effects of the current El Nino (making the last 2 years the hottest on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}