image: This is an apparently healthy Diploastrea heliopora colony from the central Red Sea. CT scan analysis of annual growth bands revealed declining skeletal growth rates since 1998 in response to ocean warming. This image relates to an article that appeared in the July 16, 2010, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Neil E. Cantin of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass., and colleagues is titled, "Ocean Warming Slows Coral Growth in the Central Red Sea." view more
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