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Why Some Coral Reefs Might Survive Climate Change
2013-08-14 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Popular Science: The world is clobbering coral reefs, home to 25 percent of all marine species. Agricultural runoff pollutes the water around them; coastal developments tear them up; overfishing kills their inhabitants; and carbon dioxide emissions make the oceans too hot and acidic. In a provocative op-ed for the New York Times last year, Roger Bradbury, an ecologist at Australian National University, declared that reefs are zombie ecosystems . . . on a trajectory to collapse within a human generation. The slightly...
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