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Anne Cohen dropped into the ocean off the coast of the Phoenix Islands expecting to find desolation. It was 2018, and a powerful El Niño weather system two years earlier had warmed the waters around this mid-Pacific atoll by nearly 3 °C. Coral reefs simmered in the heat.

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Nature 575, 580-582 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03629-7

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