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More Bleaching A coral bleaching epidemic has hit the Great Barrier
Reef in Australia, for the second time in four years is spreading through the
coral islands of the South Pacific. Usually, bleached coral recovers in the next
cool season, but if all the algae are lost, the coral will die and reefs will
crumble. Thomas Goreau, president of the Global Coral Reef Alliance in
Cambridge, MA, says "The bleaching follows record sea temperatures since the
beginning of the year. . . .Almost all the Great Barrier Reef was |
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