"Most of these species, particularly in the Caribbean, have started to experience some impacts from bleaching and elevated temperatures and disease," said David Bernhart, a biologist who works withNOAA Fisheries Service.
Date: Aug 28, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
20 New Coral Species Listed as Threatened Under the Endangered Species Act
The newly listed species are not going extinct now, said David Bernhart, a biologist with NOAA Fisheries Service in St. Petersburg, Florida, but there's a good possibility that they might in the foreseeable future. That's why these 20 specieswhich include pillow corals, three species of star corals
As with the polar bear, much of the threat to the coral species is because of future expected problems due to global warming, said David Bernhart, an endangered-species official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. These coral species are already being hurt by climate change "but