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Climate-ravaged corals recover poorly: study

by Marlowe HOO Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Coral reefs that survive rapid bleaching fueled by global warming remain deeply damaged, with little prospect of full recovery, researchers said Wednesday. Sixteen years after the 1998 El Nino ravaged coral in the Indian Ocean’s Seychelles archipelago, no reefs had recovered their original growth rates and barely a third were expanding at all, they reported in a study, the first to track coral health over […]