ForexTV.com: The International Union for Conservation of Nature [IUCN] warns that the Caribbean coral reef ecosystems are undergoing a period of rapid decline. Average live coral cover, according to the report, occupies 8% of the reef today, compared with 50% in the 1970s. "The major causes of coral decline are well known and include overfishing, pollution, disease and bleaching caused by rising temperatures resulting from the burning of fossil fuels,' says Carl Gustaf Lundin, Director of IUCN's Global Marine...
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