The corals are casualties of surging global temperatures which have smashed historical records in the past year — caused mainly by fossil fuels driving up carbon emissions and accelerated by the El Niño weather pattern, which heats ocean temperatures in this part of the world.

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The ocean will starve to death. People will too. Earth is rapidly becoming a wasteland. Often seems like too few seem to care and that’s probably just going to become more true as time goes on. It’s so deeply horrible.

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