encrusting algae is starting to grow over a head of lobe coral, Porites lobata, bleached by warm sea temperatures during 2015 El Nino event, Hawaii

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encrusting algae is starting to grow over a head of lobe coral, Porites lobata, bleached by warm sea temperatures during 2015 El Nino event, Honaunau Bay, Kona, Hawaii ( Big Island ), Hawaiian Islands, USA ( Central Pacific Ocean )

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