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Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Credit - Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)AIMS
June 5, 2021
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Global warming is not just increasing average temperatures on land, it’s heating up the oceans as well. As marine heat waves become more common, they are disrupting longstanding relationships between species that have come to depend on each other. Corals may lose the algae living inside of them, causing them to bleach, or even die, often after being hit by more than one heat wave. 

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