Coral bleaching is expected to continue on "multiple, major" reef regions due to ongoing marine heatwaves — with the world's largest coral reef ecosystem, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, among the areas hardest hit.
The big picture: That's according to a NOAA forecast that notes reef areas in the central equatorial and southwestern Pacific and western Indian Oceans are among the worst affected. Its four-month outlook for the Great Barrier Reef predicts a 90% chance of bleaching.
Women's participation in scientific patents has increased since 2000, according to new data analyzing patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The big picture: The share of women inventors has grown over the last four decades but a large gap remains between the share of inventions involving men and those that include women inventors.
