in a row of dead overgrown cauliflower corals, Pocillopora meandrina (killed in the 2015 bleaching event), a small recruit coral has bleached white

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in a row of dead overgrown cauliflower corals, Pocillopora meandrina (killed in the 2015 bleaching event), a small recruit coral has bleached white during the summer 2019 bleaching event, caused by a marine heat wave, Kohanaiki, North Kona Coast, Hawaii Island ( the Big Island ) Hawaii, USA ( Central Pacific ); the new recruit will likely die, too

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Location: Kona, Hawaii, USA
Photo credit: © Doug Perrine / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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