Study Tracks Severe Bleaching Events on a Pacific Coral Reef Over Past Century (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Study Tracks Severe Bleaching Events on a Pacific Coral Reef Over Past Century

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Ninety-five percent of the corals were bleached in November 2015, but still alive when the WHOI team visited Jarvis during the peak of the 2015-16 El Nino.

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Thomas M. DeCarlo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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