The phenomenon known as “El Nino” has been labeled as a culprit for massive chronic impacts that cause huge coral bleaching events. But a new finding has stated most of the coral losses attributed to El Nino have resurged to numbers greater than what they were before the storm. Set up by the International conservation organization Biosphere Expeditions, Scientists from the UK-based Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and the Maldives Marine Research Centre (MRC) researched the areas before and after the massive storm hit the coast causing long term water temperature increases and killing off massive amounts of coral reef.  The lead scientist of the project Dr. Jean-Luc Solandt posits: “Although our surveys aren’t as comprehensive in scale and number as those from the Great Barrier Reef, we have witnessed a promising recovery in the reefs we’ve visited. The number of chronic impacts to the reefs of the Maldives are fewer than those to the Great Barrier Reef, and that has probably resulted in this more positive response to the initial bleaching event die-off in the sites we visited in Ari Atoll.” These findings also resurge the hopes with scientists and hobbyists alike, that Mother Nature will bounce back from even the most extreme of circumstances. Read more here!