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    Coral bleaching is the process when corals become white due to loss of symbiotic algae and photosynthetic pigments. This loss of pigment can be caused...
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    at risk of bleaching events where polyps expel the zooxanthellae in response to stress such as high water temperature or toxins. Other corals do not rely...
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    of global climate change. Coral bleaching is also a major threat to all types of coral. Coral bleaching is when the coral expels the zooxanthella that...
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    heat-sensitive corals to bleach, with especially widespread bleachings in 1998 and 2010. However, reefs that experience a severe bleaching event become...
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    Great Barrier Reef (category Landforms of the Coral Sea)
    September 2007. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. "Coral Bleaching and Mass Bleaching Events". Archived from the original on 20 April 2006. Retrieved...
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    sedimentation, pollution, bleaching, ocean acidification, and human impacts. Bleaching events, triggered by rising sea temperatures, cause corals to expel the algae...
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    attributes the first large-scale coral bleaching event to the warming waters. Most critically, global mass bleaching events were recorded in 1997-98 and...
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    Coral bleaching in Oahu has been on the rise since 1996, when Hawaii's first major coral bleaching occurred in Kaneohe Bay, followed by major bleaching...
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    negatively by coral bleaching and increased sea surface temperatures, which in turn leads to coral reef diseases. The first large-scale coral bleaching occurred...
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    large amounts of coral mucus within 18-48 hrs and bleaching of hard corals within 96 hrs. Among the UV filters that result in coral bleaching according to...
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  • of coral to environmental stresses Textile bleaching Skin whitening Tooth bleaching Photobleaching Bleach (manga), a Japanese manga series Bleach (TV...
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    throughout the area, which can cause coral bleaching. "Minor paling" of some corals has been observed by local Coral Bleaching Early Warning Network, a program...
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    coral bleaching in 2016 (during a global coral bleaching event), which killed approximately 80% of corals. This followed a previous extensive coral bleaching...
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    temperatures, the Payar Island Marine Park suffered from widespread coral bleaching at a critical level in the second half of 2010. Furthermore, marine...
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  • of bleached coral in its design, noting the heavy, real-world territory the design entered, and how it directly evoked imagery of the coral bleaching in...
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    marine heatwaves can lead to severe biodiversity changes such as coral bleaching, sea star wasting disease, harmful algal blooms, and mass mortality...
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    digestion. However, the term "coral" in coral sand is used loosely in this sense to mean limestone of recent biological origin; corals are not the dominant contributors...
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  • resilience of coral reefs is the biological ability of coral reefs to recover from natural and anthropogenic disturbances such as storms and bleaching episodes...
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    reef to go into a process known as coral bleaching. “Sunscreens cause the rapid and complete bleaching of hard corals, even at extremely low concentrations...
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    coral causing it to undergo a process known as coral bleaching. The ocean's acidity is also a factor. Coral is made of calcium carbonate and is dissolved...
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  • protect coral reefs. CORAL also has a coral bleaching response network using high-resolution satellite images to monitor coral reefs and bleaching events...
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    scale bleaching events. The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) reported in 2021, that the East Asian Seas region, which includes the Coral Triangle...
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    to understand global coral reef decline. A chief mechanism for widespread reef degradation has been stress-induced coral bleaching caused by unusually...
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    showed, 91% of coral in the Great Barrier Reef, have experienced some degree of coral bleaching. The reefs that had higher levels of bleaching, often were...
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  • possible for corals to recover from bleaching, it takes several years, and the recent increase in scale and frequency of global bleaching events means...
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    Antipatharians, also known as black corals or thorn corals, are an order of soft deep-water corals. These corals can be recognized by their jet-black or...
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    events of bleaching in 16 of Jamaica's coral reef sites. The hurricanes affected 68 percent of Jamaica's coral reefs and 38 percent of those corals later...
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    causing the coral to lose color, known as coral bleaching. Environmental conditions such as a rise in water temperature inflict stress on the corals causing...
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    different types of coral, including Acropora florida, A. gemmifera, A. hyacinthus, A. intermedia, and Pocillopora damicornis. Coral bleaching has been shown...
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    Belize Barrier Reef (category Coral reefs)
    been affected by mass-bleaching events. The first mass bleaching occurred in 1995, with an estimated mortality of 10 percent of coral colonies, according...
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