Climate-Related Death of Coral Around World Alarms Scientists - The New York Times - 0 views
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Del Birmingham on 11 Apr 16Warming ocean waters are bleaching the world's corals to an unprecedented degree and could destroy huge swaths of coral reefs in areas ranging from Australia to Africa. "This is a huge, looming planetary crisis, and we are sticking our heads in the sand about it," says Justin Marshall of the University of Queensland in Australia.