Climate-related death of coral around world alarms scientists
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Kim Cobb, a marine scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, expected the coral to be damaged when she plunged into the deep blue waters off Kiritimati Island, a remote atoll near the center of the Pacific Ocean. Still, she was stunned by what she saw as she descended some 30 feet to the rim of a coral outcropping. “The entire reef is covered with a red-brown fuzz,” Dr. Cobb said when she returned to the surface after her recent dive. “It is otherworldly. It is algae that has grown over dead coral. It was devastating.”
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Climate-related death of coral around world alarms scientists. (2016, April 14). Philippine Star, p. B-5.
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Australia University of Queensland Australia National Coral Bleaching Task Force James Cook University of Queensland National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Georgia Institute of Technology Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies University of Hawaii at Hilo Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida Nature Conservancy Australia’s Global Change Institute
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