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84% of Earth's Coral Reefs in Crisis as Worst Bleaching Event on Record Hits


An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis that could kill off swathes of the essential ecosystems, scientists warned Wednesday.

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