Panamic Crown of Thorns Starfish, Acanthaster ellisii, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Crown-of-Thorns Starfish, Acanthaster planci, North Male Atoll, Maldives

Panamic Crown of Thorns Starfish, Acanthaster ellisii, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Lost Fishing Net covers Coral Reef, Indo Pacific, Indonesia

Bleached Corals on Reef Top, North Male Atoll, Maldives

Lost Fishing Net covers Coral Reef, Indo Pacific, Indonesia

Tunicates settles on bleached Corals, Didemnum molle, North Male Atoll, Maldives

Lost Fishing Net covers Coral Reef, Indo Pacific, Indonesia

Coral Bleaching, Acropora, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

Bleached Staghorn Coral, Acropora, Christmas Island, Australia

Bleached Corals on Reef Top, North Male Atoll, Maldives

Bleached Corals on Reef Top, North Male Atoll, Maldives

Bleached Corals on Reef Top, North Male Atoll, Maldives

Bleached Corals on Reef Top, Felidhu Atoll, Maldives

Bleached Corals on Reef Top, North Male Atoll, Maldives

Anchor in Coral Reef, Indo Pacific, Indonesia

Damaged Coral Reef, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

Coral polyps bleaching, Favia sp. Bleaching occurs when corals stress under high water temperatures and expel their symbiotic zooxanthellae. The coral will starve to death if it does not reacquire zooxanthellae. Buyat Bay, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean.

Beaked Whale stranded on coral reef during low tide, Mesoplodon sp., Mili, Marshall Islands (N. Pacific)..

This pink anemonefish (Amphiprion perideraion), is in an anemone (Heteractis magnifica) that is bleaching from high ocean temperatures and heat stress, Yap, Micronesia