Coral reefs support over 25 percent of all marine species on earth, yet cover just 0.2 percent of the ocean floor.
Over the course of a single decade, climate change helped kill 14 percent of the world's coral reefs, a new study has found. , the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network found that rising ocean temperatures due to climate change led to a succession of "large-scale bleaching events" that resulted in the decline of coral reefs worldwide.
The death of reefs would trigger the collapse of an entire ecosystem, scientistsThe GCRMN report, which drew its findings based on data compiled over 40 years in 73 countries, found a marked spike in the amount of algae on the world's coral reefs in just a decade. “While the results of the report are sobering, there are examples of the ability of coral reefs to recover in the absence of major disturbances,” Margaret Johnson, general manager of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority in Australia, said in a statement accompanying the report. “This reinforces our conviction that we need to step up and accelerate efforts at all levels to address key threats and increase global action at all levels to reduce the extent of climate change impacts.
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