🔥🌊🪸 #Coralbleaching update. This year's heating event has been catastrophic for corals in the Caribbean. At some shallow-water sites, most, if not all, Elkhorn corals are already dead and are rapidly being covered by turf algae (1/n) @BillPrecht @ProfTerryHughes @MarkEakin
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In these sites, the temperature has been above normal for months, and during the early days of August (the hottest period), it reached >3 C above the historical mean. This intense heat triggered mortality in many of the already weakened corals (2/n)