Climate Outreach | It can be difficult to clearly show ocean impacts in photographs, as people are not so familiar with coral's normal appearance. However, this image with a diver shows a clearly degraded and bleached coral reef. Dead corals. This coral reef bleached and died in 1998 due to a rise in water temperature, believed to be caused by global warming. When inspected a year later by marine biologists, no recovery was detected. Hikkaduwa, SRI LANKA.

755 Bleached coral Climate Impacts Climate Visuals Principles: 1. Show real people not staged photo-ops It can be difficult to clearly show ocean impacts in photographs, as people are not so familiar with coral's normal appearance. However, this image with a diver shows a clearly degraded and bleached coral reef. Dead corals. This coral reef bleached and died in 1998 due to a rise in water temperature, believed to be caused by global warming. When inspected a year later by marine biologists, no recovery was detected. Hikkaduwa, SRI LANKA. Region: Hikkaduwa Country: Sri Lanka Photographer: Fredrik Naumann Agency: Panos Pictures Rights Managed Mandatory Credit: Fredrik Naumann / Panos Pictures Photographer name: Fredrik Naumann

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