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Climate-related death of coral around world alarms scientists
2016-04-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Kim Cobb, a marine scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, expected the coral to be damaged when she plunged into the deep blue waters off Kiritimati Island, a remote atoll near the center of the Pacific Ocean. Still, she was stunned by what she saw as she descended some 30 feet to the rim of a coral outcropping. "The entire reef is covered with a red-brown fuzz," Dr. Cobb said when she returned to the surface after her recent dive. "It is otherworldly. It is algae that has grown over...
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