Bleached coral (IMAGE)

Florida State University

Bleached coral

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The coral reef at Moorea during the bleaching event in 2019. Most of the corals had turned white because they expelled the algae living in their tissues, a process known as bleaching.

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(California State University, Northridge/Peter Edmunds)

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