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

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

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5 minute read

Earth

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…

June 17, 2026