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A coral reef restoration group iswarningthatrising ocean temperaturesare putting Florida’s coral reef in danger of catastrophic loss.
TheCoral Restoration Foundation, a group centered around restoring and protecting Florida’s coral reefs, said it visited the Sombrero Reef off the Florida Keys July 20 and found “100% coral mortality.” The discovery means all corals on the Sombrero Reef have died and the reef will not recover on its own without active restoration, the foundation said.
Phanor Montoya-Maya, a restoration program manager at Coral Restoration Foundation, said in a release from the group that almost all of the corals in the Looe Key Nursery in the Lower Keys have also been lost. Corals in the Upper Keys, where the water is cooler, have not yet declined as much, and the foundation is now focused on rescuing corals from nurseries…
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