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The most common affliction during the Eastern Caribbean outbreak was white plague, so named because the disease kills tissue and exposes the coral's ivory-colored skeleton.

Global warming takes a toll on coral reefs 2009

This acidification interrupts the coral's ability to regenerate because the acid reacts with the calcium that the coral needs to structure itself.

madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2008

MACDONALD: Reef researcher Selina Ward says a rise in sea temperature can lead to widespread coral bleaching which can kill off much of the coral's life support system.

CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2007 2007

It also raises the coral's metabolism, protecting them from warming seas.

CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2007 2007

MACDONALD: Reef researcher Selina Ward says a rise in sea temperature can lead to widespread coral bleaching, which can kill off much of the coral's life-support system.

CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2007 2007

Some 30 percent of coral reefs are already irreparably damaged, thanks mainly to rising sea-surface temperatures, which hampers the coral's ability to gather nutrients.

Reefs: Coral's Faltering Partnership 2007

But it also raises the coral's metabolism, protecting them from warming seas.

CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2007 2007

Algae called zooxanthellae live within the coral, give it its brilliant reds, oranges and browns and through photosynthesis provide 98 percent of the coral's food.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

Every so often we'd hear the coral's fingernail scraping along those sleek flanks, and Batang Sen would wince as if his own side was being gouged.

The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

Lobsters and urchins began to move in, making new homes in the artificial coral's inviting nooks and crannies.

A Call to Arms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991