Stephen Leahy
Source: IPS News
July 10, 2008

One third of reef-building corals already face extinction because of climate change, the first-ever global assessment has found.Reefs are made up of hundreds of coral species, and a two-year study to determine the current status of corals has discovered that 231 of the 704 species assessed will be "red-listed" Thursday.

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