Big Reefs in Big Trouble: New Research Tracks a 50 Percent Decline in Living Coral Since the 1950s

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By Katelyn WeisbrodSep 17, 2021, 11:00 am292 pts
Climate change, overfishing, ocean acidification and pollution are driving reefs’ demise, along with the fisheries communities depend upon for nutrition. By Bob Berwyn Gathered together, the world’s coral reef systems would cover an area somewhere between the size of Oregon and Texas. Scattered about the…

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