Sentence examples for the world was bleached from inspiring English sources

The Florida coral reef, one of the largest in the world, was bleached in 2014 and 2015 amid warmer waters.

Wildfires storm across America; coral reefs around the world are bleaching and dying.

A few minutes passed before she told the crowd that corals around the world are bleaching and dying because of a pronounced rise in ocean temperature and acidity.

For all the research, Tóibín's rendering of this lost world is bleached of colour and intrusive period detail.

At first, it felt as if someone were turning up the lights, as if the world had been bleached.

We flew across the Chilean Altiplano until, like the world had been bleached, there lay ahead of us nothing but white.

He fought in the French Resistance during the second world war, but was "bleached" along with other non-whites after the end of hostilities.

"Eighty per cent of the reef was bleached," Ward says.

The entire actin ring region was bleached.

"So I'm not at all afraid to talk [about] coral bleaching and I'm really disappointed in the major operators and even minor operators putting their head in the sand and refusing to, not so much acknowledge the bleaching is serious, but thinking if the world knows it's bleached they're not going to come here, so let's try and hide it.

More than 60% of coral in reefs in the Maldives has been hit by "bleaching" as the world is gripped by record temperatures in 2016, a scientific survey suggests.