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Miami's Community Newspapers·June 11, 2026Miami-Dade County

Life after death: From burned trees to bleached corals, how dead organisms live on as the building blocks of new life

Kai Kopecky, University of Colorado Boulder and John Kominoski, Florida International University People’s knee-jerk reaction to seeing death in nature is often not positive. The burn scar left by wildfire on a once-forested hillside, or a ghostly white coral reef, may evoke trag…

Kai Kopecky , University of Colorado Boulder and John Kominoski , Florida International University

People’s knee-jerk reaction to seeing death in nature is often not positive. The burn scar left by wildfire on a once-forested hillside, or a ghostly white coral reef , may evoke tragedy and despair. But in nature, most plants and animals are recycled back into new life.

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