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Bleached corals in Hawaii. A new tool funded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc detects bleaching events on reefs. Photograph: Greg Asner
May 21, 2021
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Scientists have launched a world-first system to detect in almost real time the bleaching of the planet’s coral reefs that are under severe threat from global heating. The developers of the new tool, which has been four years in the making, claim it can allow anyone to check if reefs known to be under heat stress have actually started to bleach. 

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