Pigmented and Bleached Coral (IMAGE)

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Pigmented and Bleached Coral

Caption

Colonies of the finger coral (Porites compressa)--one remaining pigmented (left) and the other bleaching (right) in response to a period of ocean warming.

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Raphael Ritson-Williams

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