After extreme thermal stress and runoff caused mass soft coral "slumping" in 2024, researchers are monitoring South Korea's Jeju Island.
Die-offs have stalled so far in 2026, but an upcoming Super El Niño threatens a repeat of the ecological disaster.
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JEJU ISLAND, South Korea — In April 2025, I zipped myself up into a thick wetsuit and inched down a steep, rocky ledge toward the gray-blue water encircling Beomseom, a small island off the southern…
