Remote Hawaii atoll corals suffer some bleaching
Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 04:42
in Earth & Climate
(AP) -- Corals at remote atolls northwest of the main Hawaiian islands suffered some bleaching this summer as ocean temperatures rose to higher-than-normal levels for a couple of weeks, but they were spared the large-scale mass bleaching observed this year in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, scientists said Wednesday.