coral bleaching

基本解释

Image: Coral bleaching in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef/Matt Kiefer, Flickr
图片：澳大利亚的大堡礁的珊瑚白化现象
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亚已经发生了一起严重的珊瑚白化事件，亚齐省（Aceh province）沿海大约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.
其他对于大堡礁及其生态系统的环境压力来自径流的水质问题，伴随着大规模珊瑚白化的气候变化以及棘冠海星的周期性爆发现象。

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