One-third Of Reef-building Corals Face Extinction

Thursday, July 10, 2008 - 16:21 in Earth & Climate

A third of reef-building corals around the world are threatened with extinction, according to the first-ever comprehensive global assessment to determine their conservation status, published in Science. Climate change and human-induced destruction have been cited as causes.

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