In April 2019, a marine heat wave struck a coral reef on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia, killing much of the coral and the beneficial algae that colonized it. This "bleaching" event reduced ...
Bleached coral in the lagoon of Moorea, French Polynesia, during a marine heatwave in 2016. Coral bleaching is when corals lose the beneficial algae living within their tissues, and occurs when corals ...