bleached
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For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that severely bleached corals can fully recover after spending just a few days in contact with healthy, genetically identical corals.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
"While bleached corals may be dying, they are not dead yet," said lead author Danny Collins, an oceans PhD student at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Instead, once enough algae entered the bleached fragment, they reproduced rapidly inside their new host and restored its energy supply.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
However, it is possible to extract healthy symbionts and culture them -- and the team is now thinking about ways to re-introduce them en masse to bleached coral.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
The security guy double takes on Dalton’s passport, because his hair is brown in the photo, but now it’s bleached blond.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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