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El Niño 2023: How Much Coral Will Bleach?

An El Niño is forecast for 2023. How much coral will bleach this time?

Scientists remember the years between 2014 and 2017 as a particularly bad time for coral reefs. Elevated temperatures fueled by an El Niño climate pattern harmed about three-quarters of the world’s reefs in both hemispheres, forcing corals to release their life-sustaining zooxanthellae and turning them ghostly white in a process known as coral bleaching.

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Feb 02, 2023
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Mongabay

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