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Topic: Coral

Juvenile Eight-banded butterflyfish (Chaetodon octofasciatus) take shelter among the branches of a bleached Staghorn coral (Acropora sp.) in a reef affected by coral bleaching on May 08, 2024 in Trat, Thailand. (Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images)

Coral is going "haywire" due to climate

Matthew Rozsa
Alan Wallish inspects a coral head along the Great Barrier Reef on August 10, 2022 on Hastings Reef, Australia. Bleaching events and global warming have done significant damage to the Great Barrier Reef. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Record bleaching in Great Barrier Reef

Matthew Rozsa
Coral Reef (Getty Images/by wildestanimal)

Combating coral bleaching with curcumin

Matthew Rozsa
A field of stag-horn coral bleached white on the Great Barrier Reef (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

Record heat is bleaching coral

Ian Enochs - The Conversation
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Smaller than a penny, the flower-like rock artifact on the left was imaged by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover using its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the end of its robotic arm. The image was taken on Feb. 24, 2022, the 3,396th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The “flower,” along with the spherical rock artifacts seen to the right, were made in the ancient past when minerals carried by water cemented the rock. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Mars' bizarre "flower" rock, explained

Matthew Rozsa
A field of stag-horn coral bleached white on the Great Barrier Reef (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

Mass bleaching predicted for reefs

Eric Schank
A colorful scene of gorgonian giant sea fan and soft corals on a rock in a coral reefs (Getty Images/Credit: Sirachai Arunrugstichai)

Do coral reefs talk?

Nicole Karlis
(Tanya Punti, via Shutterstock)

"On a knife edge"

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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Brian Kahn - Climate Central
Several colonies of coral with attached anemones and brittle star from a previously discovered coral community 13 km from the spill site showing damage from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The extensive brown growth on the normally gold-colored coral is not found on healthy colonies. (Fisher lab, Penn State University)

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-360898p1.html'>Tory Kallman</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Military's war on the whales

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-10382p1.html'> Tischenko Irina </a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Simeon Tegel - GlobalPost
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