Tiny polyps need 2 kinds of carbon to survive coral bleaching

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Bleached Montipora capitata or rice coral. Image courtesy Andrea Grottoli Ohio State University.
Bleached Montipora capitata or "rice coral". Image courtesy Andrea Grottoli, Ohio State University.

How well ocean reefs recover from the growing damage caused by warming sea temperatures depends both on how much the tiny coral polyps can eat, and how healthy they can keep the microscopic algae that live inside their bodies.


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