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Sunscreen increases the damaging effects of climate change on coral reefs | SOUALIGA NEWSDAY

July 16, 2020

Sunscreen increases the damaging effects of climate change on coral reefs | SOUALIGA NEWSDAY
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Prolonged Stress

That is really unique

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These stress experiments are usually short-term, but this chronic exposure to a low concentration of a harmful substance has allowed us to simulate the field situation as closely as possible.

The warm seawater is the largest threat, but it seems that oxybenzone adds insult to injury by weakening corals in the face of global warming 

Coral Reefs Under Pressure

The biggest problem is climate change and you have little influence on that locally

But you do have local control over water quality

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