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Global Assessment Finds 44% Of Reef-Building Coral Species At Risk

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Researchers warn that the catastrophic decline of these marine foundations poses a severe threat to global ocean biodiversity, coastal storm defense, and critical food security.

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The scientist led a comprehensive study, published Thursday in Nature magazine, which shows the severe deterioration of the health status of reef-building corals since the last global report in 2008. "Our results show that, by 2020, nearly half of all coral species were at high risk of extinction," mainly due to climate change, concludes the study carried out by dozens of researchers. But this study is based only on information up to 2020 and th…

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Writing Science, 15 Oct (EFE).- About 44% of reef-forming coral species are in danger of extinction, according to the latest assessment by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) published this Thursday in the journal Nature. After evaluating the situation of 774 coral species that form [...] The entry Almost half of the coral species that form reefs is at risk of extinction was first published in HolaNews.

The Instituto de Aquicultura Torre de la Sal (IATS), center of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC) in Castellón, participates in a large international study that re-evaluates the danger of extinction of corals that form reefs and published by the prestigious scientific journal Nature. The study warns that 44% of these species [...] The entry Almost half of the coral species that form reefs face a greater risk of extinction was first…

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Hola News broke the news on Thursday, October 15, 2026.
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