coral bleaching

基本解释

Image: Coral bleaching in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef/Matt Kiefer, Flickr
圖片：澳大利亞的大堡礁的珊瑚白化現象
There has already been a major coral bleaching event in Indonesia this summer, in which more than 60% of the coral off the coast of Aceh province has been affected.
今年夏天在印度尼西亞已經發生了一起嚴重的珊瑚白化事件，亞齊省（Aceh province）沿海大約60%的珊瑚均受到感染。
Other environmental pressures to the reef and its ecosystem include water quality from runoff, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, and cyclic outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish.
其他對於大堡礁及其生態系統的環境壓力來自逕流的水質問題，伴隨著大槼模珊瑚白化的氣候變化以及棘冠海星的周期性爆發現象。

Four weeks after the peak summer temperatures, the coral bleaching started.
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