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Corals more resilient to climate change than ever thought
Mar 31 2007, Irani

Researchers have feared that by the end of this century, the pH of the ocean surface could decrease from 8.2 to 7.8 - i.e. will become more acidic than it has been for the past 20 million years, as researchers estimate. And this eventually will...

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