Approximately one in four marine life creatures live in coral reefs. Commonly mistaken for plants, corals are critical animals that provide aquatic species with the food, shelter, and breeding grounds necessary for sustaining biodiversity. As climate change has worsened, coral reef bleaching has devastated millions of reef areas globally.
In the last year, about 54% of all reefs have experienced bleaching-level heat stress that can lead to the mass mortality and death of living corals….
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