‘Deadly Serious’: Half of World’s Reef-Building Coral Face Extinction Threat as Oceans Warm, Study Warns
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Reef-forming corals: 44% of species are threatened with extinction. A study in Nature points to warming as the main danger.
Climate-driven ocean warming emerges as principal threat, with 340 coral species classified as threatened
Coral reef in Papua New Guinea, one of the most diverse marine ecosystems on the planet. Tom Shlesinger Almost half of the coral species responsible for reef formation are threatened with extinction, according to the largest global assessment already made on this group of animals. The study, published in the journal "Nature", analyzed 892 reef-building coral species. Among the 774 for which there were sufficient data, 340 — or 44% — were classif…
‘Deadly Serious’: Half of World’s Reef-Building Coral Face Extinction Threat as Oceans Warm, Study Warns
Nearly half the world's reef-building coral species are at risk of extinction according to a global assessment released Thursday. Researchers warn that the accelerating climate crisis is making the danger even worse than the most recent data shows.
We know that corals are hard hit by global warming and ocean acidification. A study published on Thursday in the journal "Nature" warns about the urgency of taking action while almost half of them risk extinction.
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