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Threats to corals in the Florida region


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a microbiologist at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, scuba dives past a cluster of elkhorn coral at Looe Key Reef on Feb. 13. The brown areas of the coral are healthy, but the large grey area is dead. Elkhorn is a threatened species

 

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Elkhorn coral polyps protrude from their hard skeletons at Looe Key Reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

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