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Hurricanes in 2017 did not greatly damage corals, but reefs were already in trouble
A colony of the coral Orbicella annularis with encroaching algae, 10 months after Hurricane Irma.
Credit: Peter Edmunds
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A view of the coral Orbicella annularis off Florida in 2006.
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The research vessel Walton Smith at a mooring in St. John’s Great Lameshur Bay in the U.S. Virgin Islands in November 2017.
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Surveys in November 2017 revealed numerous broken and overturned corals from wave damage.
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Coral damage from Hurricane Irma was greater in shallow waters than in the depths.
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Before the hurricanes, corals were already depleted, compared to reefs 30 years earlier.
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