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Global Coral Crisis Is In Full Bloom
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8ae52ec7-68bd-4000-9725-16e0c43c3a1a/8BFBC84F-8FF5-4FF0-9EE9-7CA8C7152892/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92432491" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92432491" style="font-size: 11px;">www.npr.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92432491"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.npr.org/img/BCB7FCDB-F95B-4B32-83CD-30C57EE4B4BB" alt="Black band disease spreads across a coral colony at the Great Barrier Reef, Australia." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92432491">Coral reefs around the world are in bad shape these days. But a new research paper in the journal <EM>Science</EM> says their problems may be getting worse. The paper says as much as a third of the world's coral species may now be headed toward extinction, thanks to problems ranging from destructive fishing boats to ocean waters warmed by global climate change. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92432491"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.npr.org/img/26E540BB-CEB7-4D80-9220-D1F9155A2EF5" alt="White spots mark areas of disease on a coral in Little Kelso Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92432491"><P>Coral experts say these reefs hold 25 percent of the world's marine species. That list includes sponges, lobsters, turtles, shrimp, sharks and commercially important fish. Philip Munday, a reef expert at Australia's James Cook University, says that's why coral reefs are often called "the rain forests of the ocean." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92432491"><P>"It's quite stunning when you get into the water on a lovely clear day and you drop down onto [healthy] reef," says Munday. 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