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Oct 13, 2024 | mdpi.com | Cesar Herrera |César Herrera |Rod Connolly |Jasmine A. Rasmussen |Gerrard McNamara

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Apr 22, 2024 | phys.org | Michael Sievers |Christopher Brown |Rod Connolly

Humans love the coast. But we love it to death, so much so we've destroyed valuable coastal habitat—in the case of some types of habitat, most of it has gone.

Apr 19, 2024 | theconversation.com | Michael Sievers |Christopher Brown |Rod Connolly

Humans love the coast. But we love it to death, so much so we’ve destroyed valuable coastal habitat – in the case of some types of habitat, most of it has gone. Pollution, coastal development, climate change and many other human impacts have degraded or destroyed swathes of mangrove forests, saltmarshes, seagrass meadows, macroalgae (seaweed) forests and coral and shellfish reefs. We’ve lost a staggering 85% of shellfish reefs around the world and coral is bleaching globally.