Scientists See Severe Coral Bleaching Near Oahu
While people in Hawaii have been sweating out a lack of trade winds, corals underwater are also suffering. The warm water prompts algae inside the coral to leave, which starves coral and turns it white.
It’s the same phenomenon causing mass bleaching that was detected about 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu. The bleaching that crews have found along Oahu’s windward coast is especially severe, according to officials at Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources.
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