Sick coral reefs are visually striking—bleached and lifeless, far from the vibrancy we’ve come to expect. But what does an unhealthy coral system sound like? In this rerun, conservation bioacoustics researcher Isla Keesje Davidson tells Science Quickly all about the changing soundscape of the seas. 

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84 Percent of Corals Impacted in Mass Bleaching Event <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worst-coral-mass-bleaching-on-record-caused-by-warming-oceans/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worst-coral-mass-bleaching-on-record-caused-by-warming-oceans/</a>
How Corals Fight Back against Warming Seas
<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-corals-fight-back-against-warming-seas/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-corals-fight-back-against-warming-seas/</a> 

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