Healthy Reef with clear water and abundant corals.

Professor Hoegh-Guldberg says researchers have found evidence that the rate at which coral reefs have been deteriorating and disappearing has accelerated in the last five years

The evidence suggests reef systems are becoming more brittle, as a result of bleaching, disease and the effects of acidifying water – and this means we are likely to see more moonscape-like areas where reefs once used to be.

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