Vast areas of coral reef could resist climate change: study (opens in new tab)

A new study presented at the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa on Tuesday finds that 166,000 square kilometres of the world's coral reefs -- around a third of the total -- are particularly "climate-resilient", meaning they have the potential to survive through major ocean warming events. The study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Macquarie University in Australia challenges the findings of the IPCC, the global authority on climate change, which has stated 70 to 90 percent of coral...