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Study: 'Urgent' Action Against Global Warming Needed To Save Coral Reefs

After another major coral bleaching event, a new study has concluded that securing a future for coral reefs "ultimately requires urgent and rapid action to reduce global warming."
Graveyard of Staghorn coral, Yonge reef, Northern Great Barrier Reef, October 2016.

In 2016, a mass bleaching event caused unprecedented destruction to the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs around the world.

Now, a new study in Nature has concluded that securing a future for coral reefs "ultimately requires urgent and rapid action to reduce global warming."

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