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Rising sea temperatures and coral loss: “Most detailed scientific picture to date”

Envirotec Magazine

The “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020” report , released on 5 October, documents the loss of approximately 14 per cent of the world’s coral since 2009. The longer-term decline seen during the last decade coincided with persistent elevated SSTs. We are running out of time: we can reverse losses, but we have to act now.

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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

Solar geoengineering, for example, does nothing to ameliorate ocean acidification, which occurs when the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Whether the world is warming up to the idea of solar geoengineering wasn’t something the people interviewed for this article could agree on.