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As ocean temperatures rise to historic levels for July — a buoy in the shallow Florida Bay recently registered 101.1 degrees at the surface — corals are bleaching along Florida’s fragile 350-mile-long barrier reef.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Tourism and fishing industries depend on thriving habitats off the coasts of Florida and the Yucatan Peninsula, but coral reefs are bleaching due to “warming ocean waters interacting with non-climate stressors.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2022

Corals are bleaching, forests are burning, and marine heatwaves are killing swaths of species.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 28, 2022

Taking into account 2016 and 2017, he added, “many of those reefs are bleaching for the third time.”

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2020

The rest which I deserve," Mannering answered, bitterly, "is the rest of those whose bones are bleaching amongst the caves and corals of the sea there!

From A Lost Leader by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)