Coasts drown as coral reefs collapse under warming & acidification (IMAGE)

ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies

Coasts drown as coral reefs collapse under warming & acidification

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Reefs will struggle to keep up with the current trajectory of warming and ocean acidification. The impacts by the end of the century include 'insidious and accelerated loss of coastal protection under unmitigated CO2 emissions'.

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Kristen Brown.

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