Photo: Global Warming Has Devastating Effect on Coral Reefs, Study Shows

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A diver swims over the collapsed remains of a coral reef near Africa's Seychelles islands. A new study shows that a large die-off that occurred among reefs there in 1998 has resulted in local fish extinctions and limited coral recovery.

Photograph courtesy University of Newcastle Upon Tyne/PNAS

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