World's coral reefs are under attack by climate crisis and 14% of them have already been lost between 2009 and 2018 –– an area 2.5 times the size of Grand Canyon National Park
Fish swim above a coral reef in the Red Sea near the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on December 17, 2019.
"Climate change is the biggest threat to the world's reefs," co-author Paul Hardisty, CEO of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, said in a statement on Tuesday. Besides anchoring marine ecosystems, they also provide protein, jobs, and protection from storms and shoreline erosion for hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
East and Southeast Asia's "Coral Triangle" –– which contains nearly 30 percent of the world's coral reefs –– were hit less hard by warming waters over the last decade, and in some cases showed recovery.
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