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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
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
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"On a knife edge"

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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Great Barrier Reef may be dying

Nicole Karlis
Oahu’s Hanauma Bay on Wednesday, May 6, 2016 near Honolulu. Much of the inner reef at Hanauma Bay is dead after decades of tourist interaction, but the outter reef is still relatively healthy. More than 2,000 international reef scientists, policymakers and stakeholders are gathering in Hawaii starting Monday, June 20, 2016, to discuss the latest coral science and what can be done to stop widespread death of the world's reefs.(AP Photo/Caleb Jones) (AP)

Coral reefs disappearing

Eric Holthaus - Grist
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I'm a scientist, and coming back

Elizabeth Madin - The Conversation

A Coral Casualty

Alexandra Clinton
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Brian Kahn - Climate Central
The Great Barrier Reef in Queensland Australia (Getty/hypergurl)

Great Barrier bleach

Brian Kahn
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Brian Kahn - Climate Central
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Great Barrier Reef in Danger

Lindsay Abrams
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A waterfall in the Amazon rainforest. (Shutterstock)

Hyacinth Mascarenhas - GlobalPost
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Lindsay Abrams
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Osha Gray Davidson
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Lindsay Abrams
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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (AP/Andy Wong)

Timothy McGrath - GlobalPost
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Prachi Gupta
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