NBC: In its most sweeping use of the Endangered Species Act, the nation’s oceans agency on Friday proposed listing 66 species of coral as endangered or threatened — and cited climate change as driving three key threats: disease, warmer seas and more acidic seas.
Pillar coral are seen in the Florida Keys. The species was one of 12 proposed for listing as endangered by the U.S.
“Climate change and other activities are putting these corals at risk,” Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and…

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