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Topic: Coral Reef

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
Beach shower, Maui, Hawaii (Getty Images/cestes001)

Are beach showers polluting the ocean?

Jea Morris - Undark
Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef outside Cairns Australia during a mass bleaching event, thought to have been caused by heat stress due to warmer water temperatures as a result of global climate change. (Getty Images/Brett Monroe Garner)

Climate change decimates ocean ecosystem

Sam Purkis - The Conversation
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