Armenia96% of shallow tropical reefs may collapse by 2075, conservation scientists warn.
Up to 1 billion people rely on reefs for fishing, tourism and storm protection.
Bleaching ejects the algae that feed coral, and reefs cannot recover from more than 3 events in 5 years.
Palau corals are gaining 0.1°C of heat tolerance a decade, researcher James Guest says.
Experts fear the current record El Niño will trigger a fifth mass bleaching.
How each outlet framed it
- New Scientist
- frames reef collapse by 2075 as a fisheries and coastal erosion loss, not only a biodiversity one
Sources: New Scientist