Scientists map 166,000 km² of climate-resilient coral reefs (opens in new tab)

Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society and Macquarie University identified roughly 165,000 to 166,000 square kilometers of coral reefs with the strongest prospects for withstanding and recovering from climate change, an area described as almost one-third of the global reef total. The study, presented at the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa, Kenya, mapped reefs across 71 countries. The work complicates the most severe reef-loss scenarios cited by the IPCC, which project that 70% to ...