REEFS IN SERIOUS TROUBLE
Added to website: 14 December 2007
Almost all the coral reefs in the world will disappear by the end of the century if global temperatures continue to rise as predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a study has found.
Professor Peter Mumby of Exeter University (and formerly Coral Cay Conservation Marine Scientist), said: “This crisis is on our doorstep, not decades away, Unless we act now, coral reefs are likely to dwindle into insignificance. They’ll be reduced to seaweed beds, rubble and a few scattered corals. The livelihoods of many millions of people living along the coasts of tropical developing countries will be among the first major casualties of rising levels of carbon in the atmosphere,” Professor Mumby is one of the authors of the report published in the journal Science.
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