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Someone Alert Ben and Jerry
Indo-Pacific coral reefs disappearing twice as fast as rainforest, study says |
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08 Aug 2007 |
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| Someone Alert Ben and Jerry Indo-Pacific coral reefs disappearing twice as fast as rainforest, study says Forget the rainforest: the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific oceans are vanishing twice as quickly, researchers say. The Indo-Pacific region, home to 75 percent of the world's coral reefs, has lost nearly 600 square miles of reef each year since the late 1960s. In addition, coral cover -- ... |
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