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A new report including contributions from 87 institutions in 23 countries has highlighted coral reef damage as proof that the world has reached its first catastrophic tipping point, attributable to greenhouse gases. Sadly, we re now almost certain that we crossed one of those tipping points for warm water or tropical coral reefs, report lead Tim Lenton, a climate and Earth system scientist at the University of Exeter, said. Tipping points are stages reached when it is generally agreed by experts that an ecosystem has reached a point of inevitable major degradation. The study, called The Global Tipping Points report, is...

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