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Trouble dead ahead: Acidifying oceans harm tropical corals

Porites reefs, say scientists Peter Edmunds and Robert Carpenter of California State University at Northridge, are among the most sensitive of all corals. Edmunds, Carpenter and Steve Doo of the University of Hawaii published results in the journal Limnology and Oceanography revealing the consequences of ocean acidification. The reefs may not be able to grow and reproduce.

https://new.nsf.gov/news/trouble-dead-ahead-acidifying-oceans-harm-tropical

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