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a highly bleached coral reef
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Bleached

A highly bleached coral reef in the Pacific Ocean. ...
scuba divers swim over bleached stag corals
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White Corals in a Bleached Reef

Divers swimming over a bleached coral reef. ...
dead coral from disease
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Sickness in the Sea: A Coral Plague Hits Florida

Florida corals had a rough 2014. During that year higher than normal ocean...
August 2019
Close-up photograph of translucent coral polyps, showing the symbiotic algae living inside.
slideshow

Zooxanthellae and Coral Bleaching

Tiny plant-like organisms called zooxanthellae live in the tissues of many animals,...
Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:14
A bluefin trevally swims in Hawaii’s Maro Coral Reef, part of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
slideshow

Two Views of Coral Reefs: Thriving and Threatened

Coral reefs are beautiful, vibrant ecosystems that house roughly one quarter of all...
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 11:19
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World Oceans Day 2012 - Live Webcast

On World Oceans Day - June 8th, 2012 - the Living Oceans Foundation hosted a...
Thu, 05/24/2012 - 15:55
A photo of coral visibly affected by disease.
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Diseased Coral

A photo taken at a reef near Bocas del Toro, Panama. The reef suffered a mass...
Corals, sponges, and algae are the major components of most coral reef communities as shown in this picture.
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Corals and Coral Reefs

Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They teem with life,...
April 2018
Swimmers brave the waters in the shadow of a coal-fired power plant.  Coal plants like this one emit CO2 into our atmosphere which is warming the planet and altering the chemistry of the ocean.
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Climate Change

Today, carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in our atmosphere are the highest they've been...
April 2018
In this photo of a shallow coral reef in the Pacific there are three species of forams. Their colors come from the symbiotic algae that live inside the foram shells.
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Shallow Coral Reef Foraminifers

In this photo of a shallow coral reef in the Pacific there are three species of...
A coral head in the Mesoamerican Reef has both bleached and living coral. The white sections are bleached and the brown parts still contain zooxanthellae, the symbiotic algae that provide food to their coral hosts.
Article

Coral Under Pressure: Monitoring Bleaching In Real Time

Vibrantly colored corals, with small fish darting about and sharks looking for...
December 2015
Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Life of a Coral Reef Fish

To synthesize a lesson on coral reefs, students write first person narratives as...
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 12:33
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