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Gray, Richard (Jul, 2010) “Coral reefs suffer mass bleaching” []...

Richard Gray is a reporter on science for the Telegraph. He does articles on things from outer space, to the bottom of the ocean.

This article is about how badly coral reefs are suffering from bleaching. It also deeply affects the reef fish that live because they can no get food and shelter. In most tropical countries 85% - 100% of the coral there is under the effects of bleaching. Bleaching is especially horrible because when the coral loses the algae, it also loses its protection against storms and environmental stress. This makes even more likely to die.

The main topic is fleshed out through descriptions of sites that have been bleached, including the bleached coral percents. There is also a photo of a coral that has undergone bleaching. It is very creepy to see something that is supposed to be colorful ghastly white.

“Divers and scientists have described huge areas of previously pristine reef being turned into barren white undersea landscapes off the coast of Thailand and Indonesia.”

"When I visited Thailand a couple of weeks ago, it was an eerie experience to look around to see white in places that should have been full of bright colors and life. It was almost worse than looking at a dead reef, because what we were looking at was a reef that was right on the verge of dying."

“Coral reef monitoring teams have reported mass bleaching of coral reefs off the coast of Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia while the Maldives, Sri Lanka and reefs off the coast of east Africa have also been hit.”

This piece helps me by explaining how many places bleaching is hurting, and how. It also mentions that reef fish and other reef organisms need reefs so much that they’re also dying.