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Chagos coral reefs post bleaching, March 2018 (credit Chris Perry)
The window of opportunity to save the world’s coral reefs is still open but time is running out, new research shows.
An international study involving University of Exeter marine scientist Professor Chris Perry, and jointly led by marine biologist Dr Christopher Cornwall from Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington and Dr Steeve Comeau from the French National Centre for Scientific Research, has calculated how coral reefs are likely to react to ocean acidification and warming under three different climate-change carbon dioxide scenarios – low, medium and worst-case.
The study, just published in the journal PNAS, has some good news to offer amid a grim outlook, but only if rapid action is taken on global CO