To the naked eye, bleaching is when the coral reefs turn white and eventually die.
They attribute the decline to storms, a coral-feeding starfish and bleaching linked to climate change.
"The level of damage - in this climate - bleaching does is irreparable, " she added.
What is destroying the world's reefs on such a massive scale is a phenomenon known as bleaching.
Bleaching damages corals and is a sign that marine life is stressed by a number of factors.
Bleaching is triggered by high temperatures and its frequency has increased, probably in response to global warming.
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It is created when chlorine (used for purposes such as bleaching) comes into contact with moulds in the cork.
Softwoods such as pine are traditionally less stable, less durable and more prone to bleaching than their more stoic sisters.
Environmental awareness has pushed denim laundries to improve techniques for bleaching and coating jeans to give them different looks, Corrente said.
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The statement acknowledged that in 1998 coral reefs around the world suffered the most extensive bleaching and subsequent mortality in modern record.
Treatment for sunspots can include skin bleaching products (look for hydroquinone, which is found in many lightening and clarifying products) and, retinoids.
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Bleaching in which symbiotic algae that live within many corals, and which photosynthesise on their behalf, are expelled, often with fatal results explained another 10%.
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But while the cooling effects of these particles may be keeping the corals from growing, according to this work, it might also be preventing bleaching.
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Local dermatologists say they are seeing more and more patients whose skin has been damaged by years of bleaching - most of the time irreversibly.
Four weeks after the peak summer temperatures, the coral bleaching started.
The 16.3-megapixel BSI CMOS sensor and brighter F2.5 lens help deliver top-notch image quality even in low-light situations without the typical bleaching effect of artificial light.
The series of 27 panels uses satellite images to show the threats facing these unique places, including shrinking glaciers, coral bleaching, disappearing permafrost, desertification and floods.
Using this fibre, weavers produce the pattern, the crown and the brim of the hat and complete the process by washing, bleaching, oven treatment, ironing and pressing.
Many coral reefs are found within the region of increasing temperatures, and most of the reefs within these latitudes have experienced bleaching over the past 10 years.
The mass bleaching of 1998 was caused by climatic events which stopped wind and currents in the Indian Ocean causing the waters to fall into a dead calm.
Scientists say reefs have recovered somewhat from those bleaching events.
This is boiled to remove chlorophyll and dried for bleaching.
Soon, however, she became aware that there was "a lot of skin-bleaching going on", a trend she found "alarming" and something that is common in much of Africa.
Hours after the shooting at the Leopold Cafe, a cult city cafe and a favourite hangout of foreigners and locals alike, the place smelt of stale beer and bleaching powder.
Two severe coral bleaching events in 1998 and 2002 due to ocean warming also had "major detrimental impacts" on the central and northern parts of the reef, the study found, putting the impact at 10%.
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg of the University of Queensland, who has been studying coral bleaching since the early 1980s, presented new work to the conference on what exactly it is that causes the algae to become burdensome.
Weaving of Mosi (fine ramie) in the Hansan region (Republic of Korea): Weaving of Mosi is a process involving harvesting, boiling and bleaching ramie plants, spinning yarn from the fibre, and weaving it on traditional looms.
John Gunn, head of AIMS, said it was difficult to stop the storms and bleaching but researchers could focus their short-term efforts on the crown-of-thorns starfish, which feasts on coral polyps and can devastate reef cover.
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