Combating Coral Bleaching - Ka Wai Ola

Combating Coral Bleaching - Ka Wai Ola

When researcher Kuʻulei Rodgers started working at the Hawaiʻi Institute for Marine Biology (HIMB) back in 1992, hardly anyone had heard of coral bleaching, a stress response that causes corals to lose their color. But just four years later, Hawaiʻi had its first documented widespread coral bleaching event, which affected reefs in Kāneʻohe, Kailua and Waimānalo. A decade later, two major coral bleaching events happened in 2014 and 2015, bleachin…

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