Climate of Our Future

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Given their close proximity to the open ocean, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that coastal habitats have been particularly damaged by the combined impact of climate change and anthropogenic development. At a recent debate on conservation biology organized by the BBVA Foundation, a group of international scientists presented their findings on the causes and consequences of the deterioration of coastal habitats (HINT: they weren’t good).Carlos Duarte, the debate’s coordinator and a researcher at the Spanish Council for Scientific Researcher said that coastal habitats are “disappearing at a rate of bet…keep reading