'A tragedy': World may have reached first climate 'tipping point' as coral reefs face collapse

Michael Holder
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Warm-water coral reefs - on which a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend - are on the brink of collapse, according to a major new scientific study

The world may have reached the first of many feared 'tipping points' in the Earth's ecosystems, with warm-water coral reefs now on the brink of collapse worldwide due to rising sea temperatures caused...

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