News Headline

Perfect storm threatens the world’s reefs

Source
Cosmos

Publication Date
2018-01-23

Reef monitoring around the world has revealed that heat-stress-related coral bleaching is now happening so frequently that there is insufficient time to recover in between events. A sharp rise in ocean acidification will further aggravate the situation. Parallels from the geological past show that this combination will likely cause widespread extinction of coral reefs, with severe to complete biodiversity collapse in the oceans. It is time to act.

Content
https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/perfect-storm-threatens-the-world-s-reefs