Seventy Percent of Florida’s Coral Reefs Are Eroding, New Study Finds (IMAGE)

University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science

Seventy Percent of Florida’s Coral Reefs Are Eroding, New Study Finds

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The Florida Reef Tract is the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States and the third largest coral barrier reef system in the world.

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NASA

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