by Bryan Walker
December 8, 2010
“Coral reefs… once survived in a world where CO2 from volcanoes and methane was much higher than anything predicted today.” That sounds like good news from John Veron, a world authority on coral. Not if you read on: “But that was over 40 million years ago, and the increase took place over millions of years, [...]
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by Bryan Walker
December 1, 2010
This has not only been a bad year for the Amazon rainforest, it has also been a year in which coral reefs, the rainforests of the ocean as they are sometimes called, have suffered severe bleaching because of raised ocean temperatures. Not a matter likely to strike the public consciousness. A recent Yale University survey [...]
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