Acid oceans demand greater reef care

4:58 AM Sun 20 Feb 2011 GMT

'Tropical coral reefs are under pressure from a suite of global and local stressors. Photo courtesy of Jeff Maynard' ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies &copy Click Here to view large photo

The more humanity acidifies and warms the world?s oceans with carbon emissions, the harder we will have to work to save our coral reefs. That?s the blunt message from a major new study by an international scientific team, which finds that ocean acidification and global warming will combine with local impacts like overfishing and nutrient runoff to weaken the world?s coral reefs right when they are struggling to survive. Modelling by a team led by Dr Ken Anthony of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and The University of Queensland?s Global Change Institute has found that reefs ...

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by ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies