Severe Coral Reef Bleaching Now ‘Five Times More Frequent’ Than 40 Years Ago

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By Carbon BriefJan 5, 2018, 9:52 am79 pts
By Daisy Dunne The scale of bleaching has been rising steadily in the last four decades, a study author told Carbon Brief , with the global proportion of coral being hit by bleaching per year rising from 8 percent in the 1980s to 31 percent in 2016. The findings indicate that "coral reefs as we know them may…

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