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Healthy, Dying, Dead: What It Looks Like WhenReef Is Bleached
2015-12-05 20:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Sometimes, when things aren't quite right with the oceans, a once-pristine, colorful reef will start to die. Corals that take thousands of years to grow, polyp-by-tiny-polyp, get a little finicky when it comes to temperature or chemical changes in the water. And in the span of just a few months, an underwater rainbow can turn a bright, ghostly white. What's striking when you see the photos is how unnatural it all seems. The phenomenon goes by the dreaded name of bleaching. It's happening now around...
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