Climate change is altering the colors we see in the world
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The coral becomes white and bleaches, making it more vulnerable to disease and death. Sometimes the coral turns colorfully fluorescent before bleaching. A 2020 study in Current Biology found that this excess light encourages coral to produce the shockingly colorful pigments. This tends to occur when …
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