Climate Warming Affecting Coral (IMAGE)

University of Georgia

Climate Warming Affecting Coral

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Drew Harvell of Cornell University photographs a giant plating <i>Acropora</i> coral colony with tumors in the Palmyra Atoll, Pacific Ocean. Climate warming is associated with the loss of coral symbionts and the proliferation of lethal coral diseases.

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Bette Willis/James Cook University

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