Climate change has long been considered as one of the greatest drivers of declining coral reefs, but the specifics of human impact have been largely unverified. In a new paper published in Nature, researchers tracked coral reef health in Hawaiʻi for 20 years — measuring increasing water acidification, land-based pollution, repercussions from a major climate event and rising water temperatures — and illustrated the undeniable contributions of human impact on coral reef health outcomes. New research by Arizona State University , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) and Bangor University in the U.

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