Scientists race to prevent wipeout of world's coral reefs
Monday, March 13, 2017 - 17:21
in Earth & Climate
SOUTH ARI ATOLL, Maldives (AP) -- There were startling colors here just a year ago, a dazzling array of life beneath the waves. Now this Maldivian reef is dead, killed by the stress of rising ocean temperatures. What's left is a haunting expanse of gray, a scene repeated in reefs across the globe in what has fast become a full-blown ecological catastrophe....