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Using various climate change models, researchers predict reefs have more time if they face only one type of stressor such as higher sea surface temperatures.
There's more bad news for planet earth if climate change continues unabated. New research published on October 11th in the open access journal PLOS Biology by researchers at the University of Hawai?i at Manoa, United States reveals that, under a worst-case scenario, half of coral reef ecosystems worldwide will permanently face unsuitable conditions in just a dozen years.
Stressors analyzed included sea surface temperature, ocean acidification, tropical storms, land use and human population.
The researchers carried out a systemic search for empirical examples about the impacts of 10 climatic hazards sensitive to greenhouse gas emissions on each known human pathogenic disease.
As if climate change and diseases like Covid-19 weren’t troubling enough threats on their own, researchers have discovered that the two may be connected.