Bleaching All hair colorants are harmful - but bleaching is the most damaging.
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Before bleaching… During bleaching, as the symbiotic algae depart, you can see the beautifully coloured polyps.
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This phenomenon is known as coral bleaching, and the longest-recorded worldwide bleaching event is still underway.
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The different colour morphs of Acropora millepora, each exhibiting a bleaching response during the mass coral bleaching event.
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"All the ingredients that can help in body bleaching, skin bleaching, are banned," a government spokesperson told CNN.
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Banning bleaching products will not completely solve the problem of unsafe skin bleaching unless other measures are also put in place.
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Coral bleaching has probably been around for as long as modern corals have, but global bleaching events are a decidedly recent phenomenon.
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Last year, the northern third underwent bleaching, so that's two back-to-back bleaching events, which scientists have never seen happen before.
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The mass bleaching conditions were observed by Coral Reef Watch, which uses remote sensing and modeling to predict and monitor for signs of bleaching.
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He first set out to use satellites to map coral bleaching about two years ago, and those satellites started monitoring the bleaching event in July.
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Bleaching, which can lead to death, is precipitated by a change in the chemistry that the cameras can see before the bleaching begins to take place.
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READ: Dramatic images reveal coral bleaching in Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef has experienced "two major bleaching events in recent decades," in 1998 and 2002.
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"We've had two major bleaching events [in the Great Barrier Reef] in 1998 and 2002, and we're potentially facing another mass bleaching event this year," he said.
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Unseasonably warm waters threatens to cause bleaching of the central region of the Great Barrier Reef, which avoided the large-scale damage from the bleaching in 2016.
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The problem is that it can take decades for reefs to recover from bleaching this bad and severe bleaching is becoming much more frequent and more severe.
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This year, scientists says climate change and rising ocean temperatures are behind the bleaching of the reef, with bleaching spread further south, hitting the middle third particularly hard.
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New helicopter surveys show Great Barrier Reef bleaching is getting worse fast New helicopter surveys show Great Barrier Reef bleaching is getting worse fast For the second year in a row, severe coral-bleaching has been reported across Australia's Great Barrier Reef, according to helicopter surveys covering 22016,22017 kilometers, published Monday.
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Thailand closes diving sites over coral bleaching crisis North-South divide Coral bleaching takes place when sea temperatures rise, even by as little as one degree Celsius, say the researchers.
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Most severe bleaching event yet Two major coral bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef took place in 1998 and 2002, but Hughes said this year's had been the most devastating.
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The details: The study, published Tuesday in Nature Communications, examines the extent to which coral bleaching penetrated to deeper waters during the Great Barrier Reef's devastating mass bleaching event in 2016.
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Severe coral bleaching is now taking place in some parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, as marine areas suffer the effects of the longest-ever global coral bleaching event on record.
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The latest aerial surveys released by scientists in April show a recent bleaching event almost as severe as the record bleaching of 23 that left two-thirds of the reef damaged.
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In the paper published yesterday, "Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene," a group of researchers including Hughes investigated the global frequency of severe coral bleaching events.
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In a survey of 520 individual reefs that make up the Great Barrier Reef's northern section, scientists from Australia's National Coral Bleaching Task Force found only four with no signs of bleaching.
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" Like '10 cyclones' Professor Terry Hughes, who convened the National Coral Bleaching Taskforce, likens the current extent of bleaching in the northern reef as like "10 cyclones have come ashore all at once.
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"Not only do you know that a major bleaching event is coming, you also know which corals are more likely to both bleach and succumb to the injuries that bleaching causes," he said.
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"Some reefs that have been surveyed have had no bleaching whatsoever, right through to reefs with very severe bleaching, with 80 percent or more of the corals observed being bleached," Dr. Wachenfeld said.
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I love playing around with highlights or bleaching the tips.
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Dead table corals killed by bleaching, Northern GBR, November 703.
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The Redken team started by bleaching the models using Flashlift.
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Bleaching my hair was like rinsing my scalp in napalm.
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"There is an unprecedented bleaching event underway," Professor Hughes said.
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Steven Miles, Queensland's environment minister, called the bleaching a tragedy.
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Coral bleaching has to do with coral's relationship with algae.
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Before the 280s, mass bleaching events were virtually unheard of.
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"So it's a double whammy for the reef with bleaching."
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Reports are coming in this week of bleaching throughout Indonesia.
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Before the 1980s, mass bleaching events were virtually unheard of.
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How much will be left after this global bleaching event?
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The Great Barrier Reef experienced its worst coral bleaching on record this year, with one scientific study estimating up to 93 percent of the reef shows signs of bleaching, largely due to climate change.
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They found that the bleaching events are getting worse: only about 9 percent of surveyed reefs escaped with no bleaching in 2016, compared to about 42 percent in 2002 and about 45 percent in 1998.
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The Great Barrier Reef suffered back-to-back mass bleaching in the summers of 2016 and 2017, highlighting the fact that the increasing frequency of bleaching will leave little time for the reefs to recover.
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Previously, the Indo-Pacific reefs were also hit by mass coral bleaching and heat stress in 1983, 1998, 2005 and 2010, before the world's most intense, longest and largest bleaching event between 2014 and 2017.
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Exposing its white skeleton, bleaching leaves coral more vulnerable to disease.
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By the middle of the century bleaching may occur every year.
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Bleaching the holy fucking fuck out of my ends to match.
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Because of climate change, coral bleaching events are happening more often.
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Staghorn corals killed by bleaching on the Northern GBR, November 2016.
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Because I've been bleaching it for five or six years now.
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An organism roughly the size of Germany is bleaching to death.
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Even with all the heat and bleaching I do to it!
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"Bleaching is not random—there are winners and losers," Hughes said.
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CGI and virtual reality are bleaching the very notion of sign.
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Sometimes, she applies bleaching cream and occasionally takes skin lightening pills.
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In recent years researchers have documented unprecedented levels of coral bleaching.
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Before 1982-3, mass bleaching events across wide areas were nonexistent.
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If that bleaching persists for too long, the coral eventually dies.
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Ms. Arthur eventually stopped bleaching and got rid of the weave.
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"After more than two years of coral bleaching, the ongoing global coral bleaching event is still in full swing," Mark Eakin, who coordinates NOAA's Coral Reef Watch program, said in a statement released by 350.org.
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But Eakin said this ongoing bleaching event — the worst yet — is largely due to human-caused global warming, which has raised ocean temperatures enough so that even a weak El Niño can set off serious bleaching.
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The researchers conducted air and water surveys of the GBR; they then compared the latest and most severe bleaching event in 2016 with the two other major bleaching events that affected the GBR in 703 and 2002.
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In a press release on March 29, the Australian Coral Bleaching Task Force announced that the northern portions of the Great Barrier Reef are in the throes of the most intense coral bleaching event on record there.
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She's open to length or cutting it, open to darkening or bleaching.
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Consider the ripple effects of a recent coral bleaching event near Madagascar.
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I saw very little bleaching during our survey dives at Swallow Reef.
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The world's longest coral bleaching event in recorded history is still underway.
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Sammy Sosa doesn&apost care what people think about his skin bleaching .
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Warming waters are the key driver of mass bleaching, the study found.
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Always seek professional help before bleaching or coloring your hair at home.
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Coral can recover from bleaching, provided it's not exposed to further stresses.
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Severe bleaching is now occurring too frequently for reefs to recover fully.
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Worse, this year the bleaching has extended further south than in 2016.
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About a fifth of the reef's corals died from the 2016 bleaching.
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Of course, it's a breeze compared to, say, bleaching your entire head.
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R29 staffer Maria Del Russo also experienced damaged hair due to bleaching.
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That bleaching continued for three years, and finally ended in May 2017.
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"Bleaching is kind of the old way to do it," Barshop says.
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The largest bleaching, at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, was confirmed last month.
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Individual corals may survive a bleaching, but repeated bleachings can kill them.
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In theory, coral reefs can recover from even a severe bleaching event.
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"Coral bleaching is caused by global warming full stop," Dr. Hughes said.
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The blue staghorn coral in the image is experiencing a bleaching event.
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"The bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef is devastating," he tells me.
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"Hawaii, for instance, does not normally have El Niño bleaching," Eakin notes.
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What we are seeing on reefs in northern Queensland is certainly bleaching.
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Scientists have now documented four major bleaching episodes along the Great Barrier Reef — 1998, 2002, 2016, and now 1.53 — which means that most of the reef has undergone some form of severe bleaching in the past 18 years.
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Another scientist, Verena Schoepf from the University of Western Australia, said portions of the reef off the Kimberley coast had suffered severe but patchy bleaching and death rates of about 15 percent so far in the current bleaching event.
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At the time, James Cook University (JCU) in Australia said that aerial surveys had shown that the middle third of the reef had seen the most intense bleaching, while in 2016 bleaching had hit the northern third the hardest.
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The report linked the rise in destructive bleaching events to warmer water temperatures.
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Coral bleaching has taken a particularly devastating toll on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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He later told Univision he used a "bleaching cream" that "whitens" his skin.
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This all depends on how porous your hair is from the bleaching process.
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This process of so-called bleaching means that the corals could eventually die.
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Bleaching occurs when the colorful algae that live inside the corals are expelled.
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More than 80 percent of reefs surveyed there showed signs of severe bleaching.
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Another mass bleaching, in 2010, led to widespread reef devastation throughout the Caribbean.
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No such tolerance was seen in corals that experienced single or repetitive bleaching.
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Bleaching and dyeing your hair put a lot of stress on your locks.
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Record high temperatures in 2016 were followed by another bleaching event last year.
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The most recent global bleaching event was "unprecedented in recorded history," he said.
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Aerial view of wide spread coral bleaching, northern Great Barrier Reef, March 2016.
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I asked if that experimental process extended to the thinking behind "bleaching" herself.
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"I knew there was bleaching but not to this degree," Flannery told me.
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More recently, Williams opted for a fresh start by bleaching her locks blonde.
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Bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef, photographed during a survey in March 2016.
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Warming water can cause the coral to expel its algae, leading to bleaching.
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To me the bleaching of the sun is the treasure of Sierra Madre.
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But the area was hit by bleaching again in 2016, causing widespread mortality.
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Bleaching is caused by the rising baseline temperatures due to anthropogenic global warming.
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Scientists say they have observed signs of coral bleaching on the Belize reef.
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As Chasing Coral explains, this bleaching occurs as a result of climate change.
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But high-CO2 waters constantly stress the reefs, and not just through bleaching.
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Other side effects of skin bleaching, generally, range from scabs to skin cancer.
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Hunt, who had just visited the world heritage-listed marine park to survey the damage, said the threat was now at "response level three" of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's (GBRMPA) coral bleaching plan, indicating severe regional bleaching.
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Little of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has now been left unscathed by coral bleaching.
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Developing severe chemical burns on your scalp from at-home bleaching gone awry, however?
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Coral bleaching is devastating marine life, and nations are slipping under rising sea levels.
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Everyone ran around in flannel shirts, bleaching each others' hair and singing Spice Girls.
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This "bleaching" is happening five times as often as it did in the 1970s.
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During 1998 and 2002, 42% and 54%, respectively, of reefs were affected by bleaching.
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Australian researchers have captured an event that's happening with alarming frequency worldwide: Coral bleaching.
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And according to a recent NOAA analysis, the bleaching could continue through early 2017.
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She's been tweezing her eyebrows and bleaching her top lip since she was 9.
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A healthy reef in southern Great Barrier Reef escapes damage from bleaching, Oct. 2016.
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I read that he was shaving his hair every day and bleaching his eyebrows.
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The severity is much greater than in earlier bleaching events in 2002 or 1998.
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Others, less than 200 metres away, suffered bleaching to just 40% of their corals.
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Coral bleaching widespread across Hawaiian Islands, surveys show, the Honolulu Star Advertiser reports. ICYMI.
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Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders are projected to decline by 18.1%
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Approved disposal methods include incineration, boiling, autoclaving, bleaching or burying in concrete-sealed containers.
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There was a global bleaching event in 1998, and a second one in 2010.
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The bleaching continued through 2016, and then on through the first half of 2017.
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Bleaching occurs when water temperatures rise more than two degrees or so above normal.
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"When corals are bleaching, they can still survive for a few weeks," Rocha said.
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But in 2016, around 30% of that coral was killed in a bleaching event.
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She experimented with fashion early on, bleaching Calvin Klein jeans in her parents' basement.
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Terry Hughes, convener of the National Coral Bleaching Taskforce, said in a press release.
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The severity is much greater than in earlier bleaching events in 2002 or 953.
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Bleaching occurs when extreme heat forces algae to abandon coral, turning them pale white.
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However, coral can recover from a bleaching event, even if in a weakened state.
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And even bleaching—I've never done it, but I've contemplated it so many times.
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My mom put bleaching cream on my face one Halloween for a vampire costume.
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They developed the tool to study what happens during coral bleaching and its aftermath.
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"You go first," was one notable comment, so I did, bleaching my whole head.
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The resulting ghostly pallor is the reason scientists call this kind of event bleaching.
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For many years her real hair, damaged by bleaching, was covered by a wig.
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The study also warned that bleaching risks were likely to increase in the future.
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As bleaching events become more frequent, reefs are unlikely to get that needed reprieve.
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We've had thousands of El Niño prior to 1983, none of them caused bleaching.
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They'll look for coral that lived through heatwaves in areas with the worst bleaching.
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Oceans also acidify as they absorb more carbon dioxide, and that causes bleaching, too.
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They're not certain, but the scientists think it might be because of acidic bleaching.
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The country's president, Paul Kagame, endorsed the crackdown on Twitter, calling skin bleaching unhealthy.
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In some cases, acidification can make corals more sensitive to bleaching at lower temperatures.
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During bleaching, as the symbiotic algae depart, you can see the beautifully colored polyps.
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In a news release on Monday, James Cook University (JCU) in Australia said that aerial surveys had shown that the middle third of the reef had seen the most intense bleaching, while in 2016 bleaching had hit the northern third the hardest.
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Opinion: The Great Barrier Reef is literally in hot water Bleaching In April, Australian scientists said that back-to-back bleaching events in 2016 and 2017 had devastated a 1,500 km (900 miles) stretch -- or more than two-thirds -- of the reef.
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Several large manufacturers, including Procter & Gamble, maker of Always and Tampax, and Kimberly-Clark, which makes Kotex, state on their websites that they use a process called elemental chlorine-free bleaching, which they said does not create dioxins during the bleaching process.
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Scientists observed this last year in the worst ever bleaching of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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"Filling" means restoring the warm pigments that were lost during the lifting and bleaching process.
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For example, some colonies of corals known as Porites survived the bleaching event, scientists found.
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The extent of the bleaching during these summers, however, pales compared with this year's findings.
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"What we are seeing is evidence there is clearly a coral bleaching event," he said.
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Earlier this year, a survey suggested that two-thirds of the GBR has suffered bleaching.
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Reefs can recover from bleaching events, but it takes time for the algae to return.
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Polyps can tolerate occasional bleaching, but if it goes on too long, then they die.
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Oxybenzone, a common chemical in sunscreen, exacerbates coral bleaching and causes DNA damage to coral.
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Hughes said only halting climate change will permanently end the problem of global coral bleaching.
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You have really nice shade going on now, so you're already in the bleaching category.
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Bleaching happens when pollution causes corals to lose their color and often precedes their death.
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Bleaching episodes typically last one year, but the most recent has been going since 2014.
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Coral does not die immediately upon bleaching, so long as water temperatures decrease soon after.
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Choi started by lightening her clients hair from the bottom up, without bleaching the roots.
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Cameroonian singer Dencia, who founded the company, has been criticized for selling skin bleaching products.
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As the name suggests, coral bleaching strips reefs of their color, leaving them completely white.
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Narrator: Before the 1980s, bleaching events would occur periodically, but never on a mass scale.
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The first mass-bleaching event that occurred on the Great Barrier Reef was in 13.
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As bleaching events are becoming more severe and more frequent, it stymies the recovery, right?
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"Even more concerning, we haven't yet found the southern limit of the bleaching," Hughes said.
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Bleaching occurs when the algae living within coral decides conditions are too warm and leave.
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"I think the general psychological process is the same [for bleaching and tanning]," she says.
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Bleaching, which sees corals losing algae that provides oxygen, has been linked to climate change.
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Starfish predation was responsible for almost half that decline, along with tropical cyclones and bleaching.
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And unlike last year, this year's bleaching occurred without the assistance of El Niño conditions.
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His team chases coral bleaching events the same way storm chasers track tornadoes and hurricanes.
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Understanding the bleaching might actually hold the key to protecting coral reefs in the future.
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We've seen coral bleaching in the harbor and the clock is ticking on climate change.
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Pain is beauty, but skin bleaching tends to be one of the more dangerous regimens.
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He's witnessed deforestation in rainforests, coral bleaching in oceans, and habitat loss for certain species.
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Dark spots also were more likely to be suffering from recent environmental shocks, like bleaching.
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The reefs already experience periodic bleaching, and they could become more vulnerable because many have been overfished and can no longer support enough of the algae that helps reef ecosystems recover from bleaching, said Peter Houk, a coral reef specialist at the marine laboratory.
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With so much bleaching and dyeing, one would think that her hair would suffer major damage.
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After that, we're examining coral bleaching and how it has impacted a fisherman's family near Madagascar.
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This is actually sad," said one critic, another adding, "Blac Chyna selling bleaching cream in Africa???
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The study pointed to the bleaching of hardy, century-old reefs as a particular red flag.
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Climate change and the recent widespread coral bleaching events make such a project only more urgent.
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There's also evidence that 2017's bleaching has started to affect the middle reef as well.
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Unpacking The Skin-Lightening Movement Skin lightening goes by many names, including bleaching, lightening, and whitening.
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Bleaching is not always fatal, but changes of just a few degrees Fahrenheit can trigger it.
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The areas most affected by bleaching had warmer sea surface temperatures for long periods of time.
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Black women are often marketed to directly by cosmetics companies that make lightening or bleaching products.
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The first two global bleaching events, in 1998 and 2010, also coincided with El Niño years.
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Bottom image: Four month bleaching outlook for February - May 2016, based on NOAA's Climate Forecast System.
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The increased frequency of bleaching events means that more corals will die before they can recover.
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Coral bleaching has been documented for decades, these events have become more frequent, widespread, and destructive.
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Already, tourism operators say they are suffering because of all the negative publicity surrounding the bleaching.
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The Great Barrier Reef had seen coral bleaching before, but this was the worst on record.
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Sequential coral bleaching events in 2016 and 2017 have affected nearly 900 miles of the reef.
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This year, 2017, we are seeing mass bleaching, even without the assistance of El Niño conditions.
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"During those events, 40-50% of the entire [Great Barrier Reef] system suffered bleaching," he explained.
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Sea surface temperatures rose around the Indian Ocean, bleaching 90% of coral reefs in the archipelago.
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Bleaching is reversible, but if waters remain too warm for too long, coral starves and dies.
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It marks the first time bleaching at this scale has happened two years in a row.
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Bleaching occurs when coral expels the colour and nutrient-providing algae that lives in its tissue.
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Bleaching occurs when water temperatures rise as little as 1 degree Celsius, or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
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The bottom third of the reef is now the only section that has escaped significant bleaching.
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We are already seeing the effects of that elevated acidity in the form of coral bleaching.
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Carilli: From those coral skeletal records, we know conclusively that coral bleaching is a new phenomenon.
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Bleaching doesn't kill coral straight away -- if temperatures drop, the algae has the chance to recolonize.
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Climate change drives acidification, which does not cause bleaching but hampers the corals' ability to recover.
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Nearly half of the reef died in 2016 in one of the largest bleaching events ever.
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While climate change is the primary cause of coral bleaching, human contact also plays a part.
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Some 620 miles of reef, much of it previously in pristine condition, had suffered significant bleaching.
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In his desperate and neverending quest for significance, bleaching the bottom teeth just wasn't a priority.
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Coral bleaching occurs when warm temperatures cause the polyps to expel the zooxanthellae, leaving them colorless.
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When I came back in 2017, one year after the bleaching episode, landscapes had completely changed.
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This marks the third mass bleaching event on the reef in just the last five years.
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"The Barrier Reef isn't dead, but it's certainly impacted by these increasing bleaching events," he said.
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The Great Barrier Reef suffered its worst bleaching event in memory, killing large swaths of coral.
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Korede is terrified she'll be bleaching his blood from their carpets in a few short weeks.
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In layman's terms, it's "where we expect to see widespread bleaching and significant mortality," Eakin said.
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Warmer waters, coral bleaching, flooding, erosion, and changing weather patterns are changing their way of life.
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By 6:20193 after bleaching, felt very 'spent', more tired than seemed appropriate for physical work.
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The coral, meanwhile, was experiencing bleaching events that made them weaker and more vulnerable to attack.
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Diets have already changed as ocean acidification and coral bleaching have reduced fish stocks, she said.
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The petition asked Amazon to remove skin-bleaching products high in mercury from its online platform.
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A few years ago, she stopped bleaching when she saw how discolored her skin was getting.
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That is, of course, if coral bleaching doesn't wipe out the creatures he hopes to investigate.
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Some healthy corals display such vivid blues and other colors naturally, not during a bleaching event.
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Many bleaching products also include hydroquinone, a chemical that is purported to have skin-lightening properties.
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NOAA's latest coral bleaching heating stress outlook, which uses ocean temperature data from satellites and climate models, shows that temperatures in all three major ocean basins—the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian—are simmered down to the point that a global bleaching event is no longer likely.
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Here's what you need to know: The report, entitled 'Global Warming and Recurrent Bleaching of Corals,' was authored by 46 scientists who studied the 20503 mass bleaching event on Australian reefs and compared it to the other two recorded incidents, one in 1998 and another in 2002.
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The northern section of the Great Barrier Reef has been particularly hard hit by the bleaching event.
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And it is far tougher than doom-and-gloom stories about coral bleaching would have you believe.
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You can also start with a blonde wig if you want to avoid the bleaching process altogether.
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Neither was interested in getting into skin bleaching and lightening powders, but other black-owned companies did.
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Coral reefs around the world have been hit hard with a coral bleaching event from overheated seas.
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The problem with years of successive bleaching is that corals have little time to recover in between.
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Researchers analyzed data about bleaching events at 22.7 reef locations around the world from 23.6 to 2016.
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For some athletes, it even means bleaching oar handles and boats or wearing plastic suits and gloves.
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"The bleaching is caused by record-breaking temperatures driven by global warming," said Hughes in a statement.
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Maybe she really is just a girl, singing about her feelings, bleaching her hair a different blonde.
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Coral bleaching occurs when coral expels the algae in its tissue that gives it colour and nutrients.
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In the past few years, we've witnessed the launch of silent hair dryers and damage-free bleaching.
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Given the increasing rates of bleaching, keeping the reefs trash-free is necessary to keep them alive.
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Extensive bleaching of Acropora corals on the reef crest of North Direction Island, Australia, April 13, 2016.
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But these unprecedented back-to-back bleaching events give the already stressed coral little time to recover.
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Coral bleaching occurs when coral expels the colour and nutrient-giving algae that lives in its tissue.
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Oxybenzone also has negative effects on our environment, contributing towards the bleaching and death of coral reefs.
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Speaking to VICE, Vevers says that usually his team visits sites as they're undergoing a bleaching process.
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Ambar, 22Background: Indonesian and Kuwaiti When it comes to Indonesia, there's a lot of whitening bleaching products.
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She might be thinking that that's like a bleaching agent because chemical acids can lighten the skin.
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The future of coral reefs looks grim Warm ocean temperatures are the main driver of coral bleaching.
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The effects can be seen in the loss of their vibrant colors, a phenomenon known as bleaching.
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Corals that experience minor or moderate bleaching usually recover, but those that are severely bleached often die.
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Dynamite fishing and coral bleaching from climate change have robbed the sea of some of its life.
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They&aposre experiencing warmer waters, coral bleaching, tidal flooding, erosion, changing weather patterns, and more brutal cyclones.
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The measurements Asner's team takes will help calibrate the first satellites to track coral bleaching from space.
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They've already gotten nearly 500 reports of bleaching across Hawaii, and users seem to like the interface.
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Then, on May 21, China awarded Ms. Trump two more trademarks in snacks, spices and bleaching preparations.
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Bleaching doesn't completely kill coral, but it makes reefs vulnerable to toxic algae, disease, predators, and death.
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The chemicals cause bleaching, deformities, DNA damage and ultimately death in coral when they're washed off beachgoers.
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In the summer of 2014, unusually high water temperatures in the Pacific caused widespread bleaching around Oahu.
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This bleaching increases a coral&aposs risk of death and threatens the fish species a reef supports.
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Hurricanes, overdevelopment and warming seas have devastated coral reefs around Florida, inducing a condition called coral bleaching.
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After a bleaching event occurs, a certain fraction of coral are likely to die off from disease.
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"We've seen bleaching as far west as Tanzania, and as far east as French Polynesia," says Eakin.
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In 2016, Azealia Banks admitted to and defended bleaching her skin, but instances like that are rare.
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And this year, the city outlawed sunscreen with oxybenzone and octinoxate, chemicals that contribute to coral bleaching.
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Though Chyna's cream claims to preserve the complexion and "lighten without bleaching skin out," many on social media have called the product a "bleaching cream" and are also criticizing Chyna for holding the public launch event in Lagos, Nigeria, where she'll visit the Whitenicious store in Ikeja on Nov.
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Global heat and coral bleaching began to increase in 2014 and continued through 2017; this event meant that marine heat waves causing bleaching struck three-quarters of the world's coral reefs and that the heat waves that cause corals to die struck almost a third, the researchers said.
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Here's NOAA's forecast of places with a 60 percent chance of coral bleaching between June and September 2016: The last time we saw such widespread bleaching was during the record-setting El Niño of 1997-'98, when the world functionally lost 15 to 20 percent of its coral reefs.
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The scientists say their findings point to climate change as one of the causes behind the coral bleaching.
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Or, just like her shirt reads on Instagram, maybe she was just "overwhelmed" by her regular bleaching schedule.
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These bleaching events happen when the coral gets stressed, expelling the algae that gives the reef its color.
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Those desperate for noticable, quick results have taken to mercury-laced bleaching creams, which do lighten the skin.
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"The interval between [bleaching events] seem to be getting shorter and the temperatures are getting warmer," he added.
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With prolonged or repeated bleaching, coral begin to die, eventually turning to rubble or becoming smothered by plants.
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Now, I know I'll never, ever, complain about braiding my hair again, because bleaching your hair is painful.
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In the northern region, where bleaching was most intense, the coral mortality figure was alarming: about two-thirds.
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And the limits agreed on in Paris will not prevent sea levels from rising and corals from bleaching.
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There's Deborah, 59073, who works in IT and has been bleaching her hair platinum white for six weeks.
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Bleaching occurs when coral are put under extreme stress by changes in conditions like temperature, light, or nutrients.
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But bleaching is disastrous for coral reefs, because the algae provide about 90 percent of the coral's energy.
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Her Kia Rio also had been set ablaze, with the fire's intensity bleaching the vehicle's black exterior white.
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Dead coral around Lizard Island after the coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in May 2016.
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Corals are bleaching everywhere, because the planet has been too damn hot for too many months on end.
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"It's not just that we're going to see more [bleaching] events," lead study author Tracy Ainsworth told Gizmodo.
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However, these southern areas may be hit by bleaching in the next few months, according to current forecasts.
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Since your hair will be drier after bleaching, most people find they can go more days between washes.
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Bleaching is a common treatment that lightens not the skin itself but the fine hairs on the face.
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And Australian scientists who recently conducted aerial surveys say they observed bleaching over two-thirds of the reef.
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During the worst of the Southern Hemisphere summer heat, 93 percent of the reef was experiencing some bleaching.
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Intense meditations on faith, family, and loyalty rub up against adventures in haphazard anal bleaching and amateur pornography.
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Coral bleaching occurs when coral expels the algae that lives in its tissue, giving it color and nutrients.
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The current bleaching event, once more occurring alongside a Niño, may have affected 38% of the world's corals.
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He saw the massive bleaching of the once-colorful Australian corals, and realized that climate change was real.
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And coral bleaching is devastating the Great Barrier Reef, one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
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Between 2014 and 2017, corals around the world suffered the longest and most widespread bleaching event on record.
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The first heat wave that took place in 2014 and 2015 caused major coral bleaching in the region.
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Researchers are already beginning to spot signs of early bleaching due to record-high temperatures, the Post reported.
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Its live coral cover has plummeted 80 percent since 1980 due to factors such as disease and bleaching.
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"There's coral bleaching all around the world and it's something I've seen growing up in Hawaii," he said.
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The reef endured coral bleaching in 26.4 and 22, but the northern region sustained only minor damage then.
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You will undoubtedly see signs of "bleaching" — wide swaths of dead or dying coral affected by ocean acidification.
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In Asia you can say 'whitener,' in the Caribbean you can say 'bleaching,' in India you say 'lightener.
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While this can be beneficial, you run the risk of bleaching clothing that comes in contact with it.
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It's pretty dramatic ... the doc even tells her she should get a psychological evaluation before pursuing any bleaching.
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For the Great Barrier Reef to fully recover from bleaching that has occurred would take decades, Eakin says.
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Large-scale coral bleaching events, in which reefs become extremely fragile, were virtually unheard-of before the 1980s.
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All evidence suggests that bleaching will only get more and more frequent as the Earth continues to warm.
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Bleaching occurs when unusually warm water causes the corals to lose plantlike organisms that help keep them alive.
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In preparation Breslin dyed her hair brown, after bleaching it blonde for years — a practice she doesn't advise.
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When temperatures climb, the corals release the symbiotic algae that help them produce their energy, thus bleaching themselves.
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Bleaching creams, though popular for decades, come with a host of dangers, including chemical burns and mercury poisoning.
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With climate change making ocean heat waves more common, the NOAA has released a 2019 coral bleaching alert.
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But half of it was killed off in two consecutive years of coral bleaching in 2016 and 2017.
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When I visited in 2018 there hadn't been much coral bleaching recently, and lots of fish were around.
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"Bleaching creams are really efficient and really useful, and I prescribe them all the time," Dr. Green said.
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You can walk into any number of black beauty salons in London and find bleaching creams and lotions.
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The worst coral bleaching event in recorded history lasted from 2014 to 2017, damaging reefs across the globe.
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Unlike the more well-known coral bleaching phenomenon, coral typically cannot recover from Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease.
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But climate change is exacerbating a threat much worse than bleaching for corals; one that causes immediate death.
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Skin bleaching is a billion-dollar industry in predominantly black countries, but some governments want that to change.
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Bleaching occurs when the microscopic algae that live on the coral — and give them their spectacular color — leave.
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And right now, scientists say, Australia is suffering one of the worst mass bleaching events in recorded history.
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Otherwise, the increased frequency of bleaching events plus acidification could prove too much for most reefs to bear.
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"Food security, shoreline protection and livelihoods from reef tourism provide the social and economic motivation for saving reefs," Terry Hughes, the lead author of a paper on coral bleaching that was published last week in Science and one of the world's leading researchers on coral bleaching, told me in an email.
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While many mass bleachings were prompted by El Niño events, which tends to warm Pacific Ocean temperatures, the bleaching event that hit the Great Barrier Reef in 2017 — the reef's first back-to-back bleaching — occurred at the beginning of a La Niña event, when ocean waters should have been cooler.
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It's certainly a bright bit of news from the reef, which is still under serious threat from coral bleaching.
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The effects are evident around the world, not least in this year's devastating bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Given how remote and widespread reefs are, scientists often don't observe corals until long after a bleaching event occurs.
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Only two of the reef's four recorded bleaching events have occurred in El Niño years, in 1998 and 2016.
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"It's essentially taking a bucket of bleach, bleaching your backyard, and then adding all the animals back," she says.
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Corals are bleaching more and more often around the world because of warming ocean waters, a new study shows.
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This latest study gives hard numbers on how often these bleaching events are now happening compared to the past.
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Based on ocean temperature forecasts for the coming year, NOAA predicts this bleaching event could extend well into 2017.
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The first global bleaching event, in 1998, killed 16 percent of the world's reefs in a matter of months.
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"By the way, forget bleaching emails, I'd like to bleach my mind right now from that image," she added.
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From these records, the team identified 372 "thermal stress events"—periods of anomalously warm water that could trigger bleaching.
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Ansel was also sporting a new 'do -- bleaching his normally brown hair blond, and definitely pulling it off too.
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Since then, I've been wary of bleaching, dying, perming, or changing my hair in any kind of permanent way.
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Over the next few months, scientists will continue to monitor the reefs to see how far the bleaching goes.
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The number of coral bleaching events are clearly increasing in concordance with the global temperature rise, despite geographic variation.
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They say for the second year in a row, this sprawling underwater treasure is bleaching on a massive scale.
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Not "why do we bleach?" but WHY WHY IS THERE A BILLION (with a B) DOLLAR SKIN BLEACHING INDUSTRY?
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Scientists believe that by 2020, the reefs will experience bleaching events annually as the water temperatures continue to rise.
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Carcinogenic dioxins are left in them from the bleaching process, and phthalates from fragrances can impact the endocrine system.
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The last severe bleaching event was in 1998 and it took almost 12 years for the reefs to recover.
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Coral bleaching - a whitening driven by temperature changes or other stresses - can kill coral if it is severe enough.
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Much remains to be done — above all, addressing the sources of pollution that cause global warming and coral bleaching.
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READ: Light and shadow, skin bleaching in Kenya But many citizens used encrypted private networks to circumvent the ban.
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According to Cantin, the Great Barrier Reef is potentially slightly less vulnerable to bleaching than reefs in other regions.
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Coral bleaching occurs when coral loses the algae that lives within it, due to increased water temperatures and pollution.
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In March, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority announced the reef is experiencing yet another mass bleaching event.
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The iconic ecosystem has suffered numerous coral bleaching events over the last two decades, overwhelmingly attributed to climate change.
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But that protection is now being eroded by climate change, leaving corals more susceptible to the ravages of bleaching.
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Coral bleaching happens when warm waters cause corals to expel the algae living in their tissues and turn white.
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As of last year, more than half of Australia's Great Barrier Reef had died as a result of bleaching.
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Thailand is shutting down several diving sites as a way to cut down on coral bleaching there, AFP reports.
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Mr. Frydenberg said Friday that about 22 percent of the entire reef's coral had died after the bleaching event.
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"Unlike hair color that stops processing after 45 minutes, bleach can continue bleaching until it dries out," he says.
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But there is no El Niño currently, which Eakin says makes this bleaching that much more surprising -- and frightening.
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He also criticized the study for not mentioning the implications of ocean acidification or coral bleaching on island health.
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For months, the northern half of Australia's famed coral reef has been ravaged by an unprecedented mass bleaching event.
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The Great Barrier Reef has experienced this sort of mass bleaching before, first in 1998 and again in 2002.
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Typically, it takes 10 to 15 years for the fastest-growing corals to recover after a severe bleaching event.
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By midcentury, climate models suggest, most reefs will experience the sort of heat associated with severe bleaching every year.
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As the satellites snap photos, Asner and his team verify ongoing bleaching events by going out into the field.
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Snapshot: Above, coral reefs around Hawaii, where a new "super unusual" marine heat wave is leading to mass bleaching.
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By 2018, more than half of Australia&aposs Great Barrier Reef had already died as a result of bleaching.
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When I took to bleaching it myself, it was often orange, because I didn't know what I was doing.
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The report to Unesco said the reef's scale and resilience meant it could recover from the bleaching this year.
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Other costs: an extraction, $20; root canal, $125 per tooth; permanent acrylic bridge, $225; bleaching, $25; porcelain crown, $250.
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To defend themselves, the polyps spit out (or slough off) their symbionts and turn white—hence the term bleaching.
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Between 2016 and 2017 half of all corals in the Great Barrier Reef died due to bleaching-induced starvation.
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A large-scale coral bleaching occurred in 703, followed by at least three other such events, varying in intensity.
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Once rare, coral bleaching now happens once every six years, leaving behind calcium skeletons where flora and fauna thrived.
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The National Coral Bleaching Taskforce will assess the true scale of the damage in the next three weeks. Prof.
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I looked up some homeopathic solutions for skin bleaching on wikiHow and discovered that papaya soap is one option.
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When confronted with direct contact from humans or reef-damaging sunscreen chemicals, corals experience stress, leading to coral bleaching.
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Beard management is also crucial: Every year, Marchetti endures a multi-day bleaching process to make it pure white.
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"Global gas emissions need to be brought down under control" in order for the bleaching to cease, Pandolfi told CNN.
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Extensive aerial surveys and teams of divers were used to map the bleaching, which covered a length of 700 kilometers.
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Under stress from increased water temperatures and pollution, coral reefs are threatened globally due to an ongoing coral bleaching event.
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"The severity and frequency of these [bleaching] events means slow-growing corals won't have time to come back," said Connolly.
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But it has not yet taken the $625 million purchase of bleaching agents maker PeroxyChem into account for the guidance.
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The back-to-back bleaching is also challenging the ability of scientists to measure and analyse its impact, Hughes said.
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Relaxing, bleaching, and dyeing the hair on your head within the space of a week will inevitably lead to disaster.
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Extensive damage from a mass bleaching event caused by a 2016 heat wave may be irreversible, a new report says.
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Meanwhile scientists are racing to discover why some types of coral have recovered from recent bleaching events better than others.
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It is too early to measure coral deaths from the 2017 bleaching, but the Climate Council predicts "high mortality rates".
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There have been three global bleaching episodes since 22016, worsened by El Niño events that heat up the tropical Pacific.
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Generators helped control the temperatures so the coral did not get exposed to hot water that could cause coral bleaching.
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Like any beauty enhancement — from lash extensions to bleaching your hair — finding a seasoned professional with great reviews is key.
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Coral bleaching, fishing, mining, and burning fossil fuels have all contributed to the destruction of the reef over several decades.
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"There's enough lactic acid in yogurt to provide a mild bleaching effect that could help even skin discoloration," he says.
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The latest global bleaching event, for instance, began in June 2014, when El Niño hadn't fully formed yet, says Eakin.
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The most toxic products surveyed were hair relaxers, colorants, and bleaching products, all of which averaged high potential hazard scores.
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Scientists will continue to monitor temperatures over the coming months to confirm that the bleaching event is, in fact, over.
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Now, scientists in Australia have reported the "largest die-off of corals ever recorded", with the main culprit being 'bleaching'.
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Coral bleaching events used to be infrequent and geographically restricted, but recently, they've become much more common, widespread, and devastating.
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Even if corals do recover, a bad bleaching event leaves them more susceptible to disease, predation, ocean acidification, and pollution.
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Rising ocean temperatures have caused mass bleaching in coral reefs around the world, from the Caribbean to the South Pacific.
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Coral bleaching occurs when ocean water gets warmer, causing corals to expel the colorful algae that live in their tissues.
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Prior to the latest two episodes, severe bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef were observed in 1998 and 2002.
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Often, the products used in anal bleaching contain kojic acid or hydroquinone, which are safe when used in small quantities.
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Among other impacts, coral reefs, vulnerable to a bleaching from global warming, were set to suffer ever more, it said.
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They began with 1980 because, according to coral growth bands, mass bleaching did not occur before this date, Hughes said.
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This is the first global study tracking the trend in coral bleaching over the past four decades, Hughes told me.
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"The central section of the reef is now displaying the same extent of bleaching as in the north," Kerry said.
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The substances are used as bleaching agents in the paper industry, as disinfectants for food processing or for wastewater treatment.
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The Great Barrier Reef bleaching event was made more extreme by stress from ocean warming, which was caused by humans.
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In his new memoir, Naturally Tan, fashionista Tan France is admitting to bleaching his skin at the age of 10.
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Sea level rise is threatening swamps and rising temperatures have caused coral bleaching and shifted sex ratios in sea turtles.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef has also been affected, with more than two thirds of it experiencing "shocking" amounts of bleaching.
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Global warming has contributed to massive coral bleaching worldwide, with particular damage occurring in parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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"And corals are particularly vulnerable due to the warming of the oceans, rising sea levels, and coral bleaching," he said.
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And my hair is so fucked up from bleaching it that I've gotta keep it this way for a while.
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The smashing of phones with a hammer and bleaching emails comes from the FBI's report into her private email server.
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Bleaching occurs when excessive heat and sunlight cause the algae that give coral reefs their shimmering colors to create toxins.
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The bleaching occurs when warmer ocean temperatures caused by climate change put major stress on coral organisms, turning them white.
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By creating new types of heat-tolerant algae and bacteria, scientists hope they can help corals fend off bleaching events.
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The World Heritage site has suffered a second bleaching event in 12 months, triggered by unseasonably warm waters, ARC added.
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"A bleached reef is a tragic sight," he said, referring to coral bleaching afflicting the reef thanks to warmer waters.
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The report also found that most of the world's warm-water coral reefs are in danger of deadly bleaching events.
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Coral bleaching happens when coral expel the symbiotic algae that live in their tissue and give them color and nutrients.
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I showed the results of aerial surveys of #bleaching on the #GreatBarrierReef to my students, And then we wept. pic.twitter.
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The Great Barrier Reef experienced an extended marine heat wave in 0003 that caused massive coral bleaching and die-off.
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It [involved] bleaching it and then we tried about five different shades of green, a couple of shades of blue.
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"She's [Douglas] had to deal with people criticizing her hair, or people accusing her of bleaching her skin," Hawkins said.
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El Niño is characterized by warmer waters in the Pacific ocean, which makes bleaching events in the region more likely.
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It also spurs them to engage in repetitive, compulsive behaviors, or rituals, which can include bleaching or tanning their skin.
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They believe it's a sign of health in this protected atoll, where bleaching, overfishing and disease are not really threats.
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Already, Eakin said, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and others are confirming bleaching up and down the reef.
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Today, the ocean is needing life support, and the Great Barrier Reef is going to witness another bleaching event soon.
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Coral bleaching occurs when stressed corals lose their color and often die, and this damaging phenomenon is becoming increasingly common.
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These incentives target people of color, and inform the popularity of skin-bleaching products in specific regions of the world.
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This reflects the real bleaching of marine coral caused by environmental stress like rising ocean temperatures and other ecological disruptions.
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Now, there are some things that Australia (and other countries) can do to help make reefs more resilient to bleaching.
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Coral reefs unable to tolerate warmer waters made 30 percent more acidic by excess carbon dioxide are experiencing widespread bleaching.
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The picture immediately below was taken before bleaching, while the one after that shows the fish on a bleached colony.
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Further afield, coral bleaching is a potential humanitarian crisis in countries that rely on reefs for food and basic livelihoods.
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They document the ongoing bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef as ocean temperatures continue to be driven upward by climate change.
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In 643, Hughes and scores of other scientists published a study directly linking the bleaching of the reef to global warming.
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Bleaching occurs when corals expel the symbiotic algae that give them their vibrant colors and provide corals' main source of food.
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This summer, crowd-sourced WCS surveys will help scientists to see whether that bleaching has affected the wider Indo-Pacific region.
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Your questions answered Coral bleaching, which is caused by warmer ocean temperatures, has already destroyed half of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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But according to Hughes, the "tragedy" of back to back bleaching is that it leaves no time for coral to cover.
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Before 1998 there had been no global mass bleaching events — which turn the living coral white and often lead to death.
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Widespread bleaching of shallow soft corals in the Great Barrier Reef near Lizard Island by Queensland, Australia on June 6, 2016.
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However, this protection came with caveats: Initially, cooler waters moving up from deeper waters kept the deep-water corals from bleaching.
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When temperatures rise, the polyps expel the algae, causing coral to lose its colour and die—a process known as bleaching.
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Faster warming is already resulting in tangible, harmful impacts, from coral bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef to rapidly intensifying hurricanes.
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The impact: Warmer oceans are already causing unprecedented back-to-back coral bleaching events, and are contributing to sea-level rise.
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Extensive aerial surveys and dives have revealed that 93 percent of the world's largest reef has been devastated by coral bleaching.
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Others may be worried specifically about dioxins, a group of compounds created as a byproduct of the traditional tampon-bleaching process.
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"It's a bleaching cream that I apply before going to bed and whitens my skin tone," Sosa told Univision in 20173.
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Without their food source, coral turn white and grow more susceptible to disease and death, a phenomenon known as coral bleaching.
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While some people (us, included) would give bleaching our eyebrows a hard "pass," models backstage at Wang embraced the beauty look.
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"Essentially, the technique involves highlighting the whole head, lifting or bleaching the hair, depositing the color, and creating a "fake root.
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Ms. Zuckerman-Hartung's work is a firestorm of techniques and effects: bleaching, dyeing, staining and sewing linen, silk and humble dropcloths.
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In 1979 she documented coral bleaching due to warming oceans; she's been working on climate change, then, for nearly 40 years.
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But because the polyps need these microalgae in order to survive, without them they turn white, a process known as bleaching.
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But this week, the star went for a real deal color change, bleaching her natural brunette strands a bright platinum shade.
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With the increase in coral bleaching over the past several decades caused by climate change, corals seem even more at risk.
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Severe bleaching is when more than 30 percent of corals are bleached in an area of tens to hundreds of kilometers.
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This makes sense, considering their finding that the global temperature conditions for bleaching are becoming more prevalent according to climate modeling.
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The reddish shade is a common choice among Black women, because it can be achieved on naturally dark hair without bleaching.
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They are listed as "least concern" by the IUCN but are vulnerable to bleaching events from the effects of climate change.
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It has also found that some species of fish, particularly parrotfish, are eroding the reefs more intensely following the bleaching event.
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Ocean acidification and coral bleaching Considered a crucial barometer of environmental health, ocean acidity is already wiping out entire marine ecosystems.
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At least that's how long it took me to completely alter my appearance by shaving my beard and bleaching my hair.
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Sea level rise, higher and stronger waves, coral bleaching, changing rainfall and trade winds are among the impacts we're already experiencing.
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But it also allowed scientists to begin to understand which coral species, and which genetic strains, could withstand a bleaching event.
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They do not contain bleaching ingredients that could damage the skin, she said in an interview with Ebony magazine in 2014.
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It has suffered repeated bouts of mass bleaching, mainly attributed to declining water quality and rising temperatures because of climate change.
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The aim with all of this is to fend off bleaching events by reducing heat and light stress on the corals.
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The first global bleaching, which occurred during the 1997-98 El Niño year, killed some 18 percent of all reefs worldwide.
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It's already under threat from the current global coral bleaching event and could face even higher risks if La Niña materializes.
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Warm waters cause corals to expel the algae living in their their tissues and turn white in a process called bleaching.
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A diver photographed a coral-bleaching event over two months in Tahiti to show the stark contrast between before and after.
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Pokémon's decision to update their coral-inspired design is a step forward for raising awareness of coral bleaching and ocean health.
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Coral bleaching occurs when unusual environmental conditions, such as heightened ocean temperatures, cause corals to expel tiny photosynthetic algae, called zooxanthellae.
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These ingredients can cause kidney failure and other illnesses, making skin bleaching a public health problem that governments need to address.
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Callie Ahlgrim: A striking section of the memoir is when you write about experimenting with bleaching your skin as a child.
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The scientists said areas of the Great Barrier Reef, a world heritage site, are experiencing the worst bleaching in 15 years.
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Women trade recipes for homemade bleaching creams using online beauty forums; some grocery stores sell green contact lenses alongside basic necessities.
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But if bleaching events become more frequent, more severe, as the researchers project, the reef's ability to recover is seriously compromised.
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"We've seen bleaching as far west as Tanzania and as far east as French Polynesia," Eakin told me in late March.
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A study last year pointed to the fact that zinc oxide and titanium dioxide could also have bleaching effects on corals.
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"Despite the fact that Year 2 was hotter, we saw less bleaching over all across the whole reef," Dr. Hughes said.
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Last year instances of bleaching occurred just in the northern regions, but this year they have reportedly hit the middle interior.
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"Assessing coral bleaching real time via satellite is incredibly novel, and really incredibly revolutionary," says Jamison Gove, an oceanographer with NOAA.
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I'm at least hoping that Centineo bleached his beard professionally; DIY facial hair-bleaching may cause eye irritation and chemical burns.
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In 1998, a so-called "bleaching event," caused by very warm water, killed more than fifteen per cent of corals worldwide.
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With this latest global bleaching in its third year, reef scientists say they have no doubt as to the responsible party.
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Bleaching indicates that corals are under heat stress, but they do not always die and cooler water can help them recover.
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But the temperature of the ocean is now high enough that global mass bleaching events seem to be growing more frequent.
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The water was so warm in Fiji that it wasn't just bleaching that grew severe—fish were straight-up dying off.
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In theory, coral reefs can recover from a severe bleaching event, says Mark Eakin, who runs NOAA's Coral Reef Watch program.
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The Great Barrier Reef, for instance, may not be able to recover from major recent bleaching events linked to climate change.
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But when water gets too warm, coral will get rid of the algae and turn white, giving off a bleaching effect.
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They document the ongoing bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef as ocean temperatures continue to be driven upward by climate change.
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"In the north, the summer temperatures got up to two degrees above the normal maximum and that caused severe bleaching," he said.
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Aerial surveys by James Cook University professor Terry Hughes have shown back-to-back mass bleaching events have decimated the northern reef.
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They both choose to dress like Fieri every day, from bleaching and styling their hair to wearing clothes that look like his.
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A study published last year found that mass coral bleaching events are five times more common than they were 40 years ago.
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But it's also incredibly cheap, so it has found its way into skin-bleaching products that are often counterfeit, mislabeled, or smuggled.
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By virtually swimming around dead coral skeletons overgrown by turf algae, you can get a sense of what coral bleaching looks like.
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Whitening products aren't a new trend — plenty of communities have history with skin bleaching or home remedies intended to lighten the skin.
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Even reefs that had not experienced any recent extensive bleaching, such as the northernmost areas of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, suffered badly.
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Globally, over 70 percent of the planet's reefs are currently being exposed to elevated temperatures that place them at risk for bleaching.
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Top image: Maximum thermal stress measured by NOAA satellites in 2014 and 2015, along with locations of the worst coral bleaching events.
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For the past few years, the corals have been undergoing a mass bleaching event that scientists primarily attribute to excessively warm waters.
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This is something that could be under threat in the Great Barrier Reef due to the current mass bleaching of coral reefs.
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And yes, some of them rely on professional bleaching treatments, but others use products from the drugstore to whiten on the daily.
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This causes the animals to turn a ghostly white—hence the term "bleaching"—but more problematically it cuts off their food supply.
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The Great Barrier Reef is currently facing a devastating coral bleaching event — a phenomenon set to get worse as the world warms.
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The report said the worst products were hair relaxers, hair colors and bleaching products, which studies have linked to potential health harm.
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The pads and tampons are made from organic cotton and are "free of dyes, fragrances and chlorine bleaching," according to the company.
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This year has seen the worst global coral bleaching event since 1998, Nick Graham, a marine ecologist at Lancaster University, told me.
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And as water temperatures rise, vast expanses of life sustaining coral, such as Australia's Great Barrier Reef, are also bleaching and dying.
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More than two-thirds of the coral in the reef is experiencing "shocking" amounts of bleaching, aerial surveys released in April revealed.
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Known as coral bleaching, this causes the coral to expose its skeleton, leaving it more vulnerable to disease, pollution and other risks.
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Along with the El Niño, global bleaching events are driven by global warming, Cantin warned, and they're occurring more and more frequently.
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Between those occasions he referred to the special process by which she deleted over 30,000 emails as "acid washing", and then bleaching.
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Warmer temperatures can induce "coral bleaching," a process in which algae leaves coral tissue, causing the organism to become pale or white.
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The coral IVF project is designed to help reefs repopulate faster to help speed up the recovery time after a bleaching event.
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Sometimes it is looking the part that will keep you in character (Di Domenico has a manicure and eyebrow bleaching before appearances).
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Narrator: But here's the thing: This rate of bleaching is not only abnormal but completely unprecedented in the Great Barrier Reef's history.
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The resulting chemical reaction produces chlorine dioxide, what the FDA calls "a powerful bleaching agent" used as a large-scale industrial disinfectant.
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The effects of climate change, including high temperatures and acidic waters, in addition to stressors like pollution, can prompt a bleaching event.
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There's just one problem, the FDA says: when the product is mixed with acid, it becomes chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleaching agent.
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Last year's State of the Climate report from the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration found that climate change is driving coral bleaching.
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Around five years ago, a large blob of heat plagued the Pacific Ocean, leading to die-offs, algal blooms, and coral bleaching.
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Coral bleaching has caused extensive damage to regions extending from the Great Barrier Reef to the Caribbean and nearly everywhere in between.
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High ocean temperatures can cause coral to expel the algae living in its tissue and turn white, a process called coral bleaching.
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Here's a short video researchers compiled of aerial shots that capture the extent of bleaching along the Great Barrier Reef in 2017:
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The authority's preliminary findings are based on a survey of the extent and severity of coral bleaching between March and June 2016.
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The abnormally hot ocean temperatures that led to this year's bleaching began in February and stretched all the way into early March.
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Temperatures have since cooled and the bleaching has subsided, but scientists in Australia are currently assessing the damage to the reef's health.
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Bleaching happens when coral -- which are living things -- expel the algae that live in them as a stress response to warmer water.
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Bleaching occurs when the water is too warm, forcing coral to expel living algae and causing it to calcify and turn white.
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A group of Australian researchers say the record-setting bleaching event was made 175 times more likely by human-caused climate change.
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A new study on coral bleaching showed the phenomenon has become so frequent that reefs can no longer recover between severe cases.
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Absent zooxanthella, corals not only take on a ghostly pallor, hence the term bleaching, but they are also more susceptible to death.
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Since 1998, the Great Barrier Reef has suffered four mass bleaching events, two of them back to back in 2016 and 2017.
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Trending Avoiding non-biodegradable sunscreen may be the one solution to coral bleaching travelers have the most immediate and direct influence over.
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A 2008 European study published by Environmental Health Perspectives concluded that sunscreen promotes viral infection in corals that can lead to bleaching.
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Bleaching removes the natural pigment from the hair, then toning returns color to your strands to create the right shade of blond.
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One climate scientist, who warned the world about coral bleaching in the early '90s, recalls how he was dismissed as an alarmist.
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The most striking example is probably mass bleaching and coral mortality on Australia's Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and again this year.
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Both labiaplasty (cosmetic surgery to shorten the labia) and labia lightening procedures (involving laser treatments or bleaching creams) are on the rise.
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A study published Thursday in Current Biology warns that bleaching is not the only existential threat to corals on a heating planet.
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Alongside food, 65 metric tons of emergency drugs, 10 million chlorine tablets and tons of bleaching powder have also been hurriedly dispatched.
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Legal observers from the American Civil Liberties Union were on hand, as were new volunteers inspired by the news of the bleaching.
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Nanjiani, a Pakistani-American was very vocal during Tuesday's election results ... at one time posting, "Anyone know any good skin bleaching places?"
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This was the third major coral bleaching event since 22, but the damage being done to these living organisms is increasing dramatically.
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This was the third major coral bleaching event since 21990, but the damage being done to these living organisms is increasing dramatically.
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The longest-ever global coral bleaching event occurred between 20183 and 2017, with 3 in 4 tropical reefs affected by heat stress.
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Among them was the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, which suffered consecutive mass bleaching events and a dramatic uptick in coral mortality.
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White has a 1949 photo of this neighborhood, with a poster on the wall of a building advertising a skin bleaching cream.
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Once the final stage of the bleaching process is reached, it is likely the coral has been stressed for days or weeks.
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Hawaii, the Pacific nation of Palau and Key West, Florida, recently banned sunscreens containing oxybenzone and octinoxate because they may cause coral bleaching.
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"It's a very big problem," explained Diop, who says she grew up with "a lot" of her family members using skin bleaching products.
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But with reefs threatened by ocean acidification and coral bleaching caused by human-induced climate change, their colorful existence is set to transform.
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But bleaching is really bad for coral reefs, because the algae are essentially its farms, providing about 22002 percent of the coral's energy.
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Coral bleaching is considered "the most widespread and conspicuous impact of climate change," according to the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Climbing ocean temperatures and pollution have killed nearly 30% of the world's reefs, causing heat stress and mass bleaching events, according to NOAA.
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Celebs have been bleaching the living daylights out of their post-summer strands — resulting in an array of platinum, pink, and rainbow shades.
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Even though bleaching creams and brightening products aren't as prevalent here in the states, it's still a mentality that we obviously can't shake.
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Turns out, bleaching in any capacity is both an art and a science — a technique involving dozens of variables and producing varying results.
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"Spent the last few days bleaching my roots (we do it in stages so it doesn't break off)," Kardashian wrote in the Tweet.
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That's what's been happening around the world since the beginning of 2015, when NOAA declared a global bleaching event, the third on record.
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Plus, as NOAA notes, certain coral reefs, including reefs in Hawaii and the Caribbean, continue to be at risk for bleaching this summer.
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Update: Azealia Banks, who proudly flaunted her use of skin bleaching cream on social media last year, has had a change of heart.
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The world's largest reef is in the midst of a widespread coral bleaching event, and scientists aren't sure whether it will fully recover.
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The first global bleaching event occurred during the 1997-1998 El Niño and killed a whopping 18 percent of corals across the planet.
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The envelopes are made locally from unbleached, recycled paper, and even the invoices are printed without bleaching and free from optical brightening agents.
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The Great Barrier Reef off Australia suffered severe bleaching, a whitening driven by warm waters that can kill corals, in 2016 and 2017.
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Bleaching, cyclones and infestations of crown-of-thorns starfish, which munch through coral, all damage parts of the reef from time to time.
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"She's had to deal with people criticizing her hair, or people accusing her of bleaching her skin," Douglas's mom Paula Hawkins told Reuters.
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Caused by stresses including warmer water temperatures and pollution, bleaching makes coral more vulnerable to disease and can lead to coral die-offs.
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To add to the bad news, a big part of the reef that escaped bleaching was pounded by tropical cyclone Debbie last month.
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Before 2016 there had only been two bleaching events along the Great Barrier Reef in the past two decades, in 1998 and 2002.
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In 2014 and 2015, the reefs experienced massive bleaching events — when heat stress alters the key metabolic functions of corals, ultimately killing them.
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The reef's northern section suffered the worst coral bleaching event in history earlier this year following an extreme underwater heatwave in 2015-2016.
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"The amount of dioxin in tampons is low today in comparison to when manufacturers used different bleaching methods," Tierno told TIME in 2016.
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The Victoria's Secret model fought back after some of her Instagram followers accused her of bleaching her skin to make it look lighter.
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Scientists in Australia have recorded "severe" coral bleaching across large parts of the Great Barrier Reef for the second time in 12 months.
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It takes around 15 years for relatively fast-growing corals to recover from a significant disturbance like bleaching or a cyclone, Connolly explained.
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Back-to-back bleaching events in 2016 and 2017 have devastated a 1,500 km (900 miles) stretch of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Before 2016, there had only been two bleaching events along the Great Barrier Reef in the past two decades, in 1998 and 2002.
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"We are currently experiencing the longest global coral bleaching event ever observed," Mark Eakin, the Coral Reef Watch coordinator, said in a statement.
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The Pacific Ocean has been the epicenter of the global bleaching event and Christmas Island has been the tiny bullseye of that epicenter.
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Ocean warming, coral bleaching So it's perhaps hardly surprising that each new climate-related news headline seems to be worse than the last.
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The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef, but about one-third of its coral died in 2018 because of bleaching events.
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He noted that large swaths of the Great Barrier Reef's southern half escaped the March-June bleaching event and are in reasonable shape.
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This comment was made during a meeting in which he also criticized the practice of skin bleaching, which has been banned since 1994.
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As you can see from the animation below, almost the entire reef was under a bleaching alert from mid-February until mid-March.
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In addition, the carbon dioxide we're adding to the atmosphere makes oceans more acidic, and that can render coral more sensitive to bleaching.
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The combined mixture becomes chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleaching agent which can have serious and potentially life-threatening side effects, the FDA explained.
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The lotion's hydrating formula is designed to avoid the dryness and skin bleaching that many people of color experience when using mainstream products.
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Kendra Pierre-Louis reports on new research that finds coral reefs may be more resilient to global warming and bleaching than we think.
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KEITH SCHOLEY I think the bit that shocked me was the coral bleaching in a 500-mile stretch of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Mr. Moon got his start bleaching the hair of his wrestling teammates in high school as a way to make them stand out.
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The effects of climate change — warming waters and acidification that cause coral bleaching and push some reefs to death — are difficult to address.
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Researchers agree that sunscreen isn't the only culprit in coral bleaching, pointing to rising sea temperatures caused by global warming among other threats.
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It warned that the Great Barrier Reef in particular could experience mass coral bleaching every two years by 2034, if current trends continue.
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Seawater has been pushed inland by ever stronger storms or has seeped into sinking ground, bleaching or blackening trees in previously lush landscapes.
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And, as the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef shows, the oceans are already struggling to adapt to a warmer, more acidic world.
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It helps his agency and other scientists get the bigger picture of coral bleaching across the region and in hard-to-reach-places.
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Rising temperatures around the globe are bleaching and killing the coral reefs and the sea anemones with which clownfish share a symbiotic relationship.
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The legislation prohibits the distribution of sunscreens containing chemicals that scientists have found contributes to coral bleaching when washed off in the ocean.
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Now she's hoping a new treatment, intravenous glutathione, will accomplish what makeup and skin bleaching creams could not: an even, lighter skin tone.
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A bleaching event the next year devastated even more reefs; the cumulative effects have killed an estimated half of the Great Barrier Reef.
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After two nonprofits delivered 23,000 signatures to Amazon asking it to remove skin-bleaching products with high levels of mercury, the company listened.
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He gave us the slip, but not before saying that in his opinion, Ghana's ban was not going to stop people from bleaching.
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Some of the bay's corals hadn't recovered from the first bleaching; many of those which had been rallying were once again laid low.
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Since the piece's installation, time has withered cabbage leaves into dingy yellow paper and blackened some carrots, while bleaching others white as parsnips.
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"What we are most concerned about is that the reef won't have time to recover before next bleaching event hits," Vever told me.
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Kanye should not be worried about bleaching his shirt, although I have gotten bleach on my clothes before and it definitely is annoying.
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But, as noted above, the bleaching can in some cases be weirdly beautiful, as the corals shed their algal cloaks and reveal themselves.
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Coral reefs seem to be having a bad century, with global bleaching events and the Great Barrier Reef fading away before our eyes.
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Study co-author Mark Eakin, who directs a coral bleaching prediction program at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), said part of the reason for the high rates of mortality in the northern Great Barrier Reef is that these areas had not been previously exposed to many bleaching events, and the less heat tolerant species succumbed almost immediately.
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Related: The Ocean Conditions That Are Bleaching the Great Barrier Reef May Be the New Normal in 20 Years The bleaching survey findings come just days after Australia's Department of Environment confirmed it omitted its contribution to a UN report examining the impact of climate change on world heritage sites over concerns it could create "confusion" and have a negative impact on tourism.
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Increasing ocean temperatures causes coral bleaching, which happens when coral expels algae from its tissues, causing it to lose color and burden the ecosystem.
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"Underwater coral nurseries struggle to scale to counter global degradation and are jeopardized by events like storms, fishing accidents, and bleaching events," he added.
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This means two thirds of the reef's corals have now been impacted by coral bleaching in a zone stretching for 1,500 km (900 miles).
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The 2016 coral bleaching event was caused by hotter water temperatures due to man-caused global warming and a strong 2015-2016 El Niño.
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The sensory overload of all those VR simulators and chickens and teeth-bleaching eggs makes you want to crawl into a hole and die.
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Even better, it's safe for the environment, so you don't have to feel guilty about adding to the mass epidemic of coral reef bleaching.
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The most recent global spate of bleaching, in 2014-17, affected perhaps 70% of coral reefs, according to America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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As oceans warm, corals risk "bleaching"—losing their colourful algal symbionts—because the algae involved can only survive in a slim range of temperatures.
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"I remember bleaching my hair out with a relaxer on it, and my hair literally just flew off my head that day," says Hamilton.
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I expected perhaps to encounter coral bleaching and other more conspicuous examples of reef destruction, but the absence of sharks disturbed me the most.
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The southern end of the reef fared better, but overall the bleaching represents a massive blow to biodiversity at the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Prior to going pink, Jenner was pure platinum — a shade she didn't plan on, but ultimately grew to love once the bleaching process began.
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Coral can survive bleaching events, but rising sea surface temperatures have caused some to worry about the long term outlook for these biodiverse regions.
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Yesterday's survey of the central third of the Reef's length revealed severe bleaching; this area largely escaped last year's event, according to the GBRMPA.
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And if bleaching doesn't kill a coral reef outright, it weakens it, making it more susceptible to diseases and the ravages of ocean acidification.
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Image: NOAAThe third global bleaching event, which began in 2014, has seen more than 40 percent of our planet's reefs exposed to stressful temperatures.
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"The biggest mistake people make when bleaching brows on Black skin is that they dye the hair lighter than the person's complexion," says Scott.
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In the fall, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted that the current global bleaching epidemic would impact nearly 40 percent of all reefs.
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In the New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert recently wrote about scientists trying to breed hardier coral that can survive this new era of frequent bleaching.
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It is called bleaching and involves the tiny animals, known as polyps, which are the living part of a reef, ejecting their symbiotic algae.
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When water temperatures rise, corals expel the living algae they need to live, causing them to turn white in a process known as bleaching.
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Record high temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, fueled by global warming and a powerful El Niño, caused mass bleaching throughout the Great Barrier Reef.
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After bleaching his hair for several months (presumably for a role), Davidson finally made a change and trimmed his platinum ends two days ago.
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It involved bleaching only the top half of the hair so the roots were dark while the ends were an icy white or yellow.
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TMZ broke the story -- Stevie J claims Hernandez went ballistic -- destroying and bleaching more than $65k worth of his belongings in a jealous rage.
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Coral can survive a bleaching event, but the longer it remains bleached and the higher the intensity of the event make death increasingly likely.
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The current bleaching is the third to strike the roughly 1,400-mile-long reef in 18 years and the most extreme scientists have recorded.
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To add insult to injury, another marine heat wave hit the Reef in 2017, with severe heat stress and bleaching striking the central region.
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Coral bleaching is an event when corals, which are tiny polyps that form reefs together, expel the colorful algae that live inside of them.
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The reef, which has been hit by back-to-back coral bleaching events, generates an estimated $2 billion for the Australian economy each year.
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Although safer alternatives exist, many of the bleaching and lightening products used in Africa contain harmful ingredients such as mercury and high-dose steroids.
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Bleaching is not necessarily fatal for coral, but 2016 was also the highest level of coral mortality ever recorded on the Great Barrier Reef.
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Mark Eakin, coordinator of Coral Reef Watch, told NASA that this is alarming because the current bleaching along the Great Barrier Reef is ongoing.
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The 2016 marine heat wave caused the most severe and catastrophic coral bleaching event the Great Barrier Reef has ever experienced, the study found.
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Dr. Eakin, the coral-reef specialist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said he expected the bleaching to continue for nine more months.
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The 1998 bleaching, which Dr. Eakin said had been set off by a fierce El Niño, killed around 16 percent of the world's coral.
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Since dyeing my hair apparently made me "less Asian" and, the implication went, whiter, I kept at it, bleaching my scalp raw for years.
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Coral bleaching—a phenomenon in which a symbiotic algae is expelled from the coral, causing it to die—has become more common and widespread.
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"I feel strongly about people who put skin bleaching cream on their kids, because family members put Fair & Lovely on my face," Qamar explains.
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The approach involves screening all personnel coming aboard the ships, enforcing social distancing, and cleaning and bleaching the ships twice daily, among other things.
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Early indications show that this latest event was not as damaging, but that a much larger area of reef experienced at least some bleaching.
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Don't do it!" says YouTuber Brad Mondo before the one-minute mark of a recent video titled "Reacting to James Charles Bleaching His Hair.
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The price tag is $650 per person, which includes trays for bleaching each night for one week and then four times a year following.
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But large swaths of the Pacific have been experiencing severe coral bleaching ever since El Niño began poking up its head in June 2014.
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For the third time in five years, abnormally warm water has caused a "mass bleaching" of coral, and some of it will not survive.
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The new outbreak comes as scientists warn that coral bleaching — death caused by the stress of rising ocean temperatures — is straining the reef's ecosystem.
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I've seen them so many times I basically have them memorized, and I can happily listen along while I'm bleaching surfaces in another room.
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Coral Vita is working on a special method of fast-tracking coral growth and simultaneously selecting for organisms resistant to bleaching and other threats.
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Maybe. Neon roots are a lot of work and require bleaching the hair close to the head and then applying a bright green gloss.
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But in reality, the Great Barrier Reef, which consists of a massive amount of coral, is deteriorating due to a process called coral bleaching.
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In Mr. Orlowski's hands, it becomes a surprisingly emotional, race-against-time effort to document "coral bleaching" as it happens along with global warming.
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Higher ocean temperatures and acidification cause corals to expel the algae living in their tissues and turn white, in what's known as coral bleaching.
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His lab created a website that allows users to report bleaching by dragging a pin on a map to wherever they spotted the damage.
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They can indicate whether the bleaching they saw was light, medium, or severe, (with instructions on how to tell the difference) and then submit.
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The marine park authority said it was further investigating the renewed bleaching, using spot checks by divers, helicopter patrols, and observations by the public.
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As waters warm, coral loses the algae that lives in its tissue, provides nutrients, and gives coral its bright color — a process called bleaching.
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In 2017, for instance, scientists in Australia recorded "severe" coral bleaching across large parts of the reef for the second time in 12 months.
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Skin-bleaching products, like high-dose hydroquinone, creams high in mercury and steroids, are usually mixed and applied to the skin, Ms. Adawe said.
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A bleaching event affecting an entire field of boulder star corals off the coast of St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands in 20173.
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Last year marked the first year mass bleaching is known to have happened to the 1,400-mile-long habitat two years in a row.
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Water temperatures there remain so high that another round of mass bleaching is underway, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority confirmed last week.
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The study says climate pressures will exacerbate other stresses, such as pollution, increasing the frequency and severity of coral bleaching, disease incidence and mortality.
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"I think one of the most common misconceptions about skin bleaching is that it's safe and it's just like other cosmetic procedures," Hunter said.
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Last week it was confirmed that another mass bleaching event is underway, making it the first time such events have happened in consecutive years.
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We see the funeral chapel looking pinkish in the bleaching light of summer, and much darker during a nighttime snowstorm (an especially good rendition).
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Researchers have found that Christmas tree worms may protect some corals from bleaching, algal smothering and predation from animals like crown-of-thorns starfish.
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We might be about to see more bleaching in Galapagos and the Pacific side of Panama, though we're not sure about that just yet.
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Anemones (which are close relatives of corals) are also prone to bleaching, which causes similar problems for the fish that use them for shelter.
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Southward of Cairns, Queensland, on the central Great Barrier Reef, the "average mortality is estimated at only 5%," with 25% bleaching rates, the scientists report.
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The bleaching during last year's heatwave was worse than expected and the episode's severity has raised serious concern for the future of the reef ecosystem.
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Williams says that if you plan on copying the trendy color, you should visit a professional and opt out of bleaching your hair at home.
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Skin bleaching is a rapidly growing industry that's estimated to reach a valuation of $2000 billion in the next decade, but it's rife with controversy.
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Some countries, including Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Rwanda, have recently joined the European Union, Japan, and Australia in banning skin-bleaching products with hydroquinone altogether.
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I've gone from buzzing it off five times to growing it out really long, to getting braids and cane rows and bleaching and dyeing it.
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As the world continues to heat up, these bleaching events will become more frequent and more severe, putting the future of coral reefs at risk.
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Coral and fish populations in the Great Barrier Reef recovered more quickly from bleaching, starfish attacks, diseases and storms in areas where fishing is banned.
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Bleaching occurs when algae that live inside corals and give them their color are expelled -- either due to increased sea temperatures or extreme weather events.
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At least one container load of organic peroxide, a strong bleaching agent that can cause injury on contact with skin, was lost, the letter said.
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This has turned into the longest bleaching event we've ever seen, and it's going to keep causing the same destruction we saw in the past.
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Bleaching takes place when "abnormal" conditions – such as increased sea temperatures – result in coral getting rid of very small photosynthetic algae, according to the ARC.
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These physiological differences were paralleled by genetic changes, with corals under the single and repetitive bleaching scenarios showing gene expression profiles consistent with heat stress.
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Scientists now consider bleaching to be the biggest threat that coral reefs face — and they face many, including overfishing, pollution, storm damage, and invasive species.
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But corals around the world are bleaching more frequently because of warmer oceans, losing their colorful algae that provide about 90 percent of their energy.
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Roxie Darling, New York-based colorist at Hairstory Studio (and the genius behind one writer's platinum hair journey), was to be my bleaching fairy godmother.
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In the past, the bleaching process for making rayon could have potentially resulted in a toxic byproduct, dioxin, being present in small amounts in tampons.
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In March, coral reef scientists first raised the alarm about the third-ever global coral bleaching event reaching the iconic Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
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This is a protective ingredient that we're gonna put on your gums to protect them so none of the bleaching gel will touch your gums.
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At least one container load of organic peroxide, a strong bleaching agent that can cause skin injuries, was lost, a Dutch official said last week.
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Bleaching, a term coined by the subsequent draining of color, is when coral expels the algae from its surface, leaving itself both vulnerable and malnourished.
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According to early assessments out Thursday from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, 22 percent of the reef died in this year's horrific bleaching.
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In late 2015, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced this bleaching event, which is the third such global occurrence ever documented, was underway.
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Without reducing carbon emissions, we are giving our reefs no time to recover from bleaching events — events that are predicted to occur with increasing frequency.
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It doesn't seem to be the case that corals are able to adjust their physiology to warmer water so that they have higher bleaching thresholds.
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The tune is about the climate change crisis and the issue of coral bleaching, a phenomenon in which corals turn white due to global warming.
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This year, in a survey of 520 reefs that form the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef, scientists found only four free of bleaching.
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While bleaching occurs naturally, scientists are concerned that rising sea temperatures caused by global warming magnifies the damage, leaving sensitive underwater ecosystems unable to recover.
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While El Niño has passed its peak, scientists have warned that the global coral die-off, known as coral bleaching, is still far from over.
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Warmer oceans lead to a variety of problems, such as sea level rise, more intense storms with heavier rainfall, coral bleaching and melting polar ice.
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When comparing Crest White Luxe Glamorous Whitestrips to bleach gels and pens, Dr. Stoess-Allen found the strips to be the most effective bleaching agent.
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The new design is "ghost" type, its empty white shell seems to be a reference to the coral bleaching that is threatening coral reefs worldwide.
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In Hawaii, coral bleaching is finally subsiding, but the damage may be long-lasting, Eakin said, with some 500-year-old reefs seeing 95% mortality.
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About 22 percent of coral on the Great Barrier Reef died due to the worst mass coral bleaching event on record, according to an Oct.
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" Katrina was also cautious about linking the recent spate of coral bleaching directly to climate change, insisting that "there are so many other factors involved.
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Scientists say the global bleaching is the result of an unusual confluence of events, each of which raised water temperatures already elevated by climate change.
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This year excessively high temperatures combined with still, clear conditions literally cooked large sections of the reef's coral, with only seven percent unaffected by bleaching.
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Another one shows the increase of coral bleaching, which is when coral reefs turn white due to warmer water temperatures and become susceptible to disease.
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Coral bleaching happens when coral—stressed by excess heat, light, or pollution—expels all of the beneficial algae living inside it, turning reefs sickly pale.
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Somehow, what started as a normal budget hearing for the Hallandale Beach City Commission devolved into an argument about anal bleaching, the Miami Herald reports.
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One was laser whitening, in which a laser beam activates a chemical bleaching agent applied to the teeth; Dr. Smigel helped develop and popularize it.
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But in 2017, the coral had to be exposed to those temperatures for eight to nine weeks before it suffered the same level of bleaching.
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Adult corals that were further south escaped bleaching, but they were too far from the bleached northern reefs to help them replenish, the scientists found.
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Given current projections of ocean warming and acidification, he is more concerned about warming, which stresses the algae living inside corals and causes coral bleaching.
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Not only does it keep my hair from getting brassy, it also allows for longer breaks between treatments and therefore less damage caused by bleaching.
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Arkema claims to be the third-largest producer of hydrogen peroxide in the world, which can be used for pharmaceuticals, bleaching textiles and treating wastewater.
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Though, she noted that there was not an immediate change like you might experience from one of the bleaching products out there, such as strips.
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But rising water temperatures set off a process of coral bleaching, in which the algae is released and the reef loses its main energy source.
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Heatwaves — which we usually think of as happening just on land — are becoming much more common in the ocean, killing kelp forests, and bleaching coral.
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"Skin bleaching and lightening the skin becomes the [thing] that grabs our attention because skin color's such an unapologetic mark of someone's race," she said.
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Today, researchers have pointed out the harmful effects of hydroquinone, a chemical found in skin lightening and bleaching agents that can cause itchy, burning skin.
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Here are some more before and after photos, showing the effects of bleaching on the anemones that species such as clownfish use as a refuge.
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"It brought temperatures in the bottom half of the reef down and saved it from what would have been a reef-wide bleaching event," Hughes said.
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"Spent the last few days bleaching my roots (we do it in stages so it doesn't break off)," Kardashian West wrote in the tweet in December.
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We're talking about men who have never heard of toner box-bleaching their hair to appear somewhere between Boris Johnson and Billie Joe Armstrong circa 1995.
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That's why some 360-degree photographs show staghorn corals in the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa before, during, and after a bleaching event in 2015.
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The bleaching event was caused by global warming and an El Niño event, but additional pollutants near the Great Barrier Reef are unwelcome under any circumstances.
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When bleaching is this severe, it affects almost all coral species, including old, slow-growing corals that once lost will take decades or longer to return.
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"The reef is no longer as resilient as it once was, and it's struggling to cope with three bleaching events in just 18 years," he said.
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According to a study by the World Health Organization in 2011, an estimated 61 percent of skincare products sold in India are for lightening or bleaching.
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For nearly three years, coral reefs—which grow mainly in warm, tropical waters near the equator—have suffered a mass bleaching event due to excessive heat.
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Bleaching events are expected to become more frequent and more severe in a warming world, leaving reefs less time to recover in between bouts of starvation.
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"This region escaped with minor damage in two earlier bleaching events in 1998 and 2002, but this time around it has been badly affected," Hughes added.
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Image: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef StudiesFor the second time in 12 months, Australia's Great Barrier Reef has experienced a severe coral bleaching event.
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This is the result of a process called bleaching, in which coral reacts to higher water temperatures by ejecting the microscopic algae that give it colour.
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Now, for the first time, biologists have captured the process of coral bleaching as it happens, showing us how corals kill themselves in gory scientific detail.
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Ninety-five percent of more than 500 reefs stretching between Cairns and Papua New Guinea showed signs of bleaching — and some reefs appeared close to death.
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For many Black women with dark hair, committing to a new hair color means bleaching your strands first (unless you get a bomb wig, of course).
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In his book, France opens up about his history with skin-bleaching products, which he stole from his cousin when he was just 10 years old.
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It comes at an opportune time in the wake of the 2015-2016 bleaching event, that impacted 75 percent of the reefs examined in the study.
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The image is a pop art parody of what many South Asian girls experience—being told to avoid the sun and smother yourself in bleaching products.
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And we added that thermal expansion is another cause of sea level rise, and corrected the implication that ocean acidification was a cause of coral bleaching.
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This points to the role being played by human-caused global warming, which is elevating ocean temperatures and making such bleaching events more likely to occur.
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This report comes just months after the mass bleaching crisis in the Great Barrier Reef, which saw over 67 percent of corals in one area dead.
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The main reason I use it is because I feel it gets the white things whiter and removes stains better while not bleaching the darker colors.
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Some athletes are taking precautions, such as taking antibiotics, bleaching oars, and using special suits and gloves to avoid contact with the water, the AP reports.
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Narrator: In 21 and 26, the Great Barrier Reef was hit with a massive marine heat wave, leading to the longest coral-bleaching events ever recorded.
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In Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, a large number of corals already have been destroyed by bleaching and diseases related to higher temperatures, the study noted.
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Australian scientists have confirmed what they have feared for months as a global coral bleaching event hit one ecological treasure after another, from Hawaii to Indonesia.
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In Lizard Island, Australia, to the northeast of Cairns, officials are estimating that 50% of the reefs have been killed due to prolonged and intense bleaching.
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Around Christmas Island, which is about 490 kilometers, or 300 miles, south of Jakarta, Indonesia, coral bleaching has been ongoing since June of 2015, Eakin said.
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Separately, there is evidence that the Great Barrier Reef in Australia is experiencing its worst coral bleaching on record as a result of rising sea temperatures.
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Worse, these bleaching events are expected to become increasingly common in the future if the planet keeps heating up, and the reef will struggle to recover.
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Bleaching can kill coral, damaging these delicately balanced ecosystems to the point they can't be repaired, and it also makes for a pretty depressing snorkeling experience.
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Coral bleaching is akin to some environmental force stripping away your skin, weakening your skeleton, and preventing you from ever being able to grow back either.
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Like Jess, Mr. Rose is a manipulator of materials, bleaching, coloring and abrading images so they appear to have been exhumed from archives of another age.
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CORRECTIONS: January 2698, 24637 INTERNATIONAL An article on Thursday about a government crackdown on skin-bleaching products in Rwanda paraphrased incorrectly comments by Dr. Carlos Charles.
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The Great Barrier Reef had two back-to-back bleaching events that killed just about half of the corals along the length of the barrier reef.
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Where waves once lapped at the harbor's lighthouse, rusting trawlers now sit abandoned on the sandy seabed far below, like dinosaur bones bleaching in the sunshine.
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Another strategy is to focus recovery efforts on reefs impacted by the heat wave and coral bleaching event -- 54% of which were analyzed in the study.
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Bleaching occurs when warm waters prompt the coral polyps to reject the algae that live on them and provide them with nutrients — and their bright colors.
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Leslie Nesbitt, one of the founding partners, said many African-American clients come in after disappointing experiments with skin bleaching that result in burns and scars.
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The need for disinfectants has gotten so extreme that one of the largest bleaching powder companies in China is running at full capacity to meet demand.
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I still use bleaching gel on dark spots at night sometimes, and in the morning I use SkinCeuticals Discoloration Defense, which is very expensive but effective.
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Coral bleaching happens when corals are stressed by changing ocean conditions and expel the algae living in their tissues, which causes them to turn completely white.
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The skin bleaching industry is fueled not only by African countries but also by nations including India, China, South Korea and many countries in the Caribbean.
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It nods to a debate over the sometimes unhealthy practice of skin bleaching that in Rwanda has led to raids on pharmacies to confiscate dangerous cosmetics.
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Another intervention we're testing is assisted evolution, where we speed up the evolutionary process by interbreeding the most resilient corals that have survived past bleaching events.
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But large swaths of the Pacific have been experiencing severe coral bleaching ever since El Niño began kinda-sorta poking its head up in June 2014.
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Since 1985, half the reef's coral has been ravaged by tropical storms, invasive crown-of-thorns starfish, disease, and coral bleaching driven by rising ocean temperatures.
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According to the study, the north side is far more affected, with death toll rates between 50-60%, and bleaching rates close to 90% in some areas.
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To keep up with her icy platinum blonde hue, the KKW Beauty mogul revealed she needs to sit in the chair for 13+ hours bleaching her hair.
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Just let her blonde-to-blonder experience serve as a cautionary tale of how easy it is to get hooked on the hue once you start bleaching.
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The Bleaching Market Is Booming Vicki Belo, MD, is one of the most in-demand dermatologists in the Philippines, and has built an empire from whitening alone.
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" Vargas-Angel estimates that "about 95% of the coral colonies died from coral bleaching caused by high and prolonged water temperatures associated with this intense El Niño.
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It seems that — despite the constant bleaching and styling — celebs remain exempt from the kind of breakage that befalls the rest of us after a hair change.
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This bleaching happens as algae and other organisms living on the structure leave, depriving the coral of its major food source and causing it to turn white.
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A coal spillage near a World Heritage-listed marine park is always unwelcome, but parts of the Reef are also recovering from a global coral bleaching event.
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El Niño has likely played a large part in the coral bleaching events this year in the Great Barrier Reef, as well as in Hawaii and Fiji.
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We knew coral bleaching was a serious issue in the Great Barrier Reef, but the scope of just how widespread it was has been unclear — until now.
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While politicians around the world have failed to pass much meaningful legislation on climate change, film-makers have captured melting ice caps, coral bleaching and devastating floods.
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That's because they also share the same go-to hairstylist, Kristin Ess, who has been braiding, bleaching and chopping their strands into dream-worthy looks for years.
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At this point, the majority of the reef looks like it could be spared the worst of the global coral bleaching event due to improving weather conditions.
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During the past few years, the longest-lasting global coral bleaching event on record has been occurring, a result of global warming and an El Niño event.
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As this latest bleaching event showed, coral reefs, which support roughly 25 percent of all marine species, are incredibly sensitive to even small changes in the temperature.
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"We're hoping a lot of reefs will get some time to recover before the next bleaching comes," Mark Eakin, Coral Reef Watch Coordinator at NOAA, told Gizmodo.
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Recent attribution studies have found that climate change played a major role in everything from violent avalanches in Tibet to the bleaching of coral reefs in Australia.
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The higher temperatures brought about by global warming have therefore led to worries that more frequent episodes of bleaching might result in the loss of entire reefs.
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Bleached Hair: SplurgeIf you live and die by the double process, you know that the only thing more expensive than actually bleaching your hair is maintaining it.
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As a still semi-recent convert to the silver- white-blonde lifestyle, Kim has spoken out about the painstakingly exhausting time-suck that is the bleaching process.
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The researchers found that, since 1980, the frequency of severe coral bleaching events has increased from once every 25 to 30 years to once every 5.9 years.
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The wider Hawaiian archipelago is also suffering from one of the worst and longest-lasting coral bleaching events in its history because of persistently high ocean temperatures.
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However, since 2014 this tropical paradise has been struck by severe coral bleaching, affecting between 60 percent and 90 percent of its coral, depending on the area.
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While coral polyps could still take hold and regrow into reefs, scientists anticipate that bleaching events will leave long-lasting marks on the face of ocean ecosystems.
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Back-to-back bleaching events in 2016 and 2017 have devastated a 1,500 km (900 miles) stretch of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Australian scientists told CNN.
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The Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's treasures, but is at risk due to coral bleaching as a result of climate change and government inaction.
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Bleaching usually occurs when coral becomes stressed by rising water temperatures or pollution, causing it to expel the living algae it houses and turn a stark white.
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While at work, Spark encounters head-on the disastrous and already-evident consequences of climate change, such as the mass coral bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Mass bleaching reduces the disparity between corals that might survive and those that are more vulnerable, resulting in higher death rates across the reef, Professor Hughes said.
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"I've been bleaching my teeth for the past few days and now the wind that I create from just talking makes them hurt," he tweeted on Sunday.
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In 73 and 2017, half of all corals died in the Great Barrier Reef in one of the most harrowing back-to-back bleaching events ever seen.
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The earlier global bleaching events, combined with various other forms of destruction—disease, dredging, dynamite fishing—had already convinced marine scientists that reefs were in grave trouble.
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The outlook for the Great Barrier Reef has further darkened with evidence of an unprecedented second consecutive bleaching event this year, researchers at James Cook University said.
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" On the left, a clinic offers a weight-loss treatment that promises "losing one kilogram after each session," as well as "hair removal and bleaching without pain.
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Ace Chemicals is famously the location where the Joker fell into a vat of chemicals, bleaching his skin white and turning him into the famous Batman villain.
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On the other side of the southern hemisphere, the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing coral bleaching, which is when heat stress kills coral by driving algae away.
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Read more: Here's why one African country is banning skin bleaching productsThe darker you are within a community, the less desirable people see you, which is ridiculous.
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In 22, El Niño was responsible for a spike in ocean temperatures, which led to an unprecedented level of bleaching along the northern third of the reef.
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Australian scientists said on Wednesday that just seven percent of the Great Barrier Reef remains untouched by mass bleaching that is likely to destroy half the coral.
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The study suggests the combined impact of coral bleaching from increased water temperatures and ocean acidification from carbon dioxide emissions could impair a reef's ability to recover.
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The Great Barrier Reef Authority, an Australian government agency, based its announcement of mass bleaching on observations, still underway, made in the water and from the air.
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Last year, before the recent heat wave and bleaching, the authority published a detailed assessment of the reef's outlook, an analysis that is conducted every five years.
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As the virus spreads, the ship's crew is implementing an "aggressive mitigation strategy," taking steps such as screening everyone coming aboard and bleaching the ship twice daily.
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Unfortunately, recent weather forecasts suggest that southern sanctuary—along with the rest of the Great Barrier Reef—may be in for another bout of heat-induced bleaching.
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"NOAA's latest bleaching forecasts are devastating," Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, wrote in an email.
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So far, well-documented bleaching events like these new results show have hit Australia's Great Barrier Reef four times: in 269, 2000, 2016 and now in 2017.
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So far, well-documented bleaching events like these new results show have hit Australia's Great Barrier Reef four times: in 1998, 2002, 2016 and now in 2017.
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"Unless drastic action is taken, extreme coral bleaching will be the new normal by the 2030s," said Lesley Hughes, a professor and ecologist at the Climate Council.
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The legislation prohibits the distribution of sunscreens containing the chemicals oxybenzone and octinoxate that scientists have found contributes to coral bleaching when washed off in the ocean.
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Akzo Nobel, which also owns the bleaching services company Eka and the powder coating firm Interpon, has rejected two previous offers, arguing that they undervalued the company.
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He warned the audience it probably wasn't appropriate -- especially with his family in attendance -- but Charlize had no qualms ... and dropped a crack about bleaching your crack.
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Researchers fear warming ocean waters could cause more coral bleaching, which could lead to some of the most widespread loss of coral that Hawaii has ever experienced.
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It was one of the first places in Africa to ban bleaching when, at the time, it was such a prevalent part of Ghanaian and African culture.
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The paper in Nature documents vast coral bleaching in 203 along a 500-mile section of the reef north of Cairns, a city on Australia's eastern coast.
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"The idea that we're going to have 20 or 30 years before we reach the next bleaching and mortality event for the corals is basically a fantasy."
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Dark-skinned people do not necessarily see people like them in billboards, movies and advertisements, and dark-skinned celebrities sometimes grow more popular after bleaching their skin.
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" She shares, "My second series of Sanctuary Fish came about as I began to read about the widespread bleaching of coral reefs due to rising ocean temperatures.
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In the past, vaginal and anal bleaching were largely the purview of porn performers and exotic dancers — basically, people whose incomes were dependent on having pristine genitalia.
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