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For example, there are classes of marine life there that have not yet been studied at all, and growth rings on the blue coral can be examined to measure environmental changes in the last millennium. But in many places, the coral has lost its color. White "bleached" coral is either dying, or is already dead. "It's not normal," says Rie Oi , a marine ecologist and instructor at Ishigaki Resort Polytechnical College. "This year was especially bad: the summer was hot, and there was a lot of rain.