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Barrier Reef at greater risk than thought: study

2016-03-26 23:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Australia`s Great Barrier Reef, the world`s largest coral bank, is at greater risk than previously thought of dissolving as climate change renders the oceans more acidic, researchers warned recently. A decline in aragonite - the mineral that corals use to build their skeletons - is likely to accelerate, they found, as oceans absorb carbon dioxide spewed by mankind`s burning of fossil fuels. This disturbs ocean chemistry, leading to a drop in the pH level and less aragonite, a crystal form of...

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