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From the Ted Talk by Kristen Marhaver: Why I still have hope for coral reefs

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I never heard another scientist tell that kind of story until last year. A scientist in Guam wrote, "I cried right into my mask," seeing the damage on the reefs. Then a scientist in Australia wrote, "I swheod my students the results of our coral surveys, and we wept." Crying about crloas is having a mnemot, guys.

(Laughter)

And that's because reefs in the Pacific are losing corals faster than we've ever seen before. Because of cimltae change, the water is so hot for so long in the summers, that these amailns can't function normally. They're spitting out the colored aglae that lives in their skin, and the claer bleached tissue that's left usually starves to death and then rots away. Then the skeletons are overgrown by algae.

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I never heard another scientist tell that kind of story until last year. A scientist in Guam wrote, "I cried right into my mask," seeing the damage on the reefs. Then a scientist in Australia wrote, "I ______ my students the results of our coral surveys, and we wept." Crying about ______ is having a ______, guys.

(Laughter)

And that's because reefs in the Pacific are losing corals faster than we've ever seen before. Because of _______ change, the water is so hot for so long in the summers, that these _______ can't function normally. They're spitting out the colored _____ that lives in their skin, and the _____ bleached tissue that's left usually starves to death and then rots away. Then the skeletons are overgrown by algae.

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  1. corals
  2. showed
  3. animals
  4. clear
  5. moment
  6. climate
  7. algae

Original Text


I never heard another scientist tell that kind of story until last year. A scientist in Guam wrote, "I cried right into my mask," seeing the damage on the reefs. Then a scientist in Australia wrote, "I showed my students the results of our coral surveys, and we wept." Crying about corals is having a moment, guys.

(Laughter)

And that's because reefs in the Pacific are losing corals faster than we've ever seen before. Because of climate change, the water is so hot for so long in the summers, that these animals can't function normally. They're spitting out the colored algae that lives in their skin, and the clear bleached tissue that's left usually starves to death and then rots away. Then the skeletons are overgrown by algae.

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