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Study projects unprecedented loss of corals in Great Barrier Reef due to warming
2015-01-23 05:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science Daily: The coverage of living corals on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could decline to less than 10 percent if ocean warming continues, according to a new study that explores the short- and long-term consequences of environmental changes to the reef. Environmental change has caused the loss of more than half the world's reef building corals. Coral cover, a measure of the percentage of the seafloor covered by living coral, is now just 10-20 percent worldwide. The Great Barrier Reef, once thought to be...
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