El Nino threat to reefs


Warm seas could devastate the Coral Triangle – Earth’s underwater Amazon.

A GROWING number of scientists are predicting a major El Nino weather event this year, which could wreak havoc across South America and Asia as droughts, floods and other extreme weather events hit industry and farming. But the impacts on the world’s coral reefs could be even more disastrous.

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