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Ocean temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” could make the current global coral bleaching the worst in history. It’s so bad that scientists are hoping for a few hurricanes as they cool the oceans. More than three-fifths – 62.9% – of the world’s coral reefs are badly hurting from a bleaching event that began last year and is continuing. That’s nearing the record of 65.7% in 2017, when from 2009 to 2017 about one-seventh of the world’s coral died, says Derek Manzello, coordinator of the US’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch Program. When water gets to…

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