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For Florida’s Ailing Corals, No Relief From the Heat

Inside Climate News · By Amy Green · last updated
Scientists now fear a global bleaching event, with Florida leading the way.

By Amy Green

ORLANDO, Fla.—No immediate end is in sight to the unprecedented marine heat wave stressing the state’s coral reefs, raising fears the heart-rending losses seen here may portend a global bleaching event that could affect reefs from Florida to Colombia, scientists of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.

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