A study highlights that an increase in global warming by 2°C could cause the loss of cool areas in the sea known as thermal refugia that protects coral reefs from increasing temperatures.
A new study predicts that climate change will result in near-total to total loss of existing locations where coral reefs are sheltered from rising ocean temperatures. Adele Dixon of the University of Leeds, U.K., and colleagues present these findings, which are at higher resolution than any previous analysis, in the open-access journal PLOS Climate on February 1, 2022.