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This healthy leaf coral sits on top of a dying coral reef. Coral reefs are the one of earths most complex ecosystems, containing over 800 species of corals and one million animal and plant species. The summer is hot and the surrounding hard corals are distressed due to the ocean temperature rising and causing loss of endosymbiotic algae from the coral. Here we see an example of the underwater effects on this coral reef ecosystem being damaged and bleached due to global warming. The location is Ko Haa, Phi Phi, Andaman Sea, Krabi, Thailand.