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https://www.reefcheck.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/bleaching216_4.jpg300400The 3rd Global Bleaching Event is now working its way through the southern hemisphere with NOAA Coral Reef Watch showing "hotspots" in the Central and SW Pacific and the Indian Ocean from Indonesia over to Madagascar. Significant bleaching has been recorded by Reef Check teams in many areas including Fiji and New Caledonia in the Pacific, and Mayotte in the Indian Ocean.