Why You Should Care That Coral Reefs Are Dying

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Listen up, humans of planet Earth! There's something going on in our oceans and you really need to know about it.

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Earlier this week I got the chance to see Chasing Coral which is out now in select theaters and on Netflix as of today and it left me shocked, unsettled, and upset about the current status of our oceans.

Before you even think it, I'd like to take this opportunity to say that I'm a HUGE nature nerd. But you know what? It takes nature dweebs like me to alert you all about things like this!

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You see, our beautiful coral reefs are dying at an alarming rate due to coral bleaching aka what happens when the ocean's temperature rises to the point that it kills the coral .

When this happens the animal inside of coral dies and leaves behind a white skeleton — so the image you're looking at above, for example, is basically a coral graveyard. But more on that later.

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In fact, we ve lost 50 of the world s corals in the last 50 years and that number just keeps on growing.

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