The Great Barrier Reef has been brutally bleached for the second year in a row.

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By Kate YoderApr 10, 2017, 5:10 pm124 pts
Contrary to what you may have heard, the reef isn’t dead — not yet. But aerial surveys show that 900 miles of the 1,400-mile-long reef have been severely bleached in the past two years. Bleaching occurs when warm water causes stressed-out corals to expel symbiotic algae from their tissues; corals then lose…

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