UN advisors: 96% of shallow coral reefs face collapse by 2075

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's eight-thirty Eastern, this is Coffee Talk, and the coffee is hot and the news about coral is not.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe International Union for Conservation of Nature surveyed a hundred and twenty-seven reef systems, across a hundred and eighty-eight thousand, three hundred and sixty-two square kilometres.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentNinety-six percent are critically endangered, its highest risk category.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistNinety-six percent. I felt that in my knees.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThey looked at a hundred and twenty-seven of them. Nobody gets to say they missed a spot.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentAnd without the climate projections, only twenty-four percent would be rated critically endangered.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentSo the heat is doing the work, and the Great Barrier Reef is on the list.

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   Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThere's a cloud over the Pacific I call Gerald, and he won't look at me. He knows what he did.

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   Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentBrock, stop naming the clouds. Fine, which one is mine?

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    Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThe thin high one that never rains. Nina.