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Coral Bleaching Event from the 2023 Marine Heat Wave

"In the summer of 2023, portions of the Florida Keys experienced an extreme marine heat wave, unlike any other in recorded history for the region. Heat records were broken and some reefs were completely bleached—they expelled their food-producing algal partners and turned white." - Excerpt from NOAA

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