Time: A study published Thursday says our coral reefs could be in danger. Toth and her co-writers say in the study that El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) caused reef ecosystems in the tropical eastern pacific to collapse thousands of years ago, and pollution combined with global warming changes could now repeat the process. The sea temperature changes associated with El Niños are the main cause for the coral reefs dying off from bleaching. Around 4000 years ago reef growth began to shut down. The...
URL: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2012/07/05/scientists-find-that-climate-change-stalls-reef-growth/
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