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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

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This will put at risk decades of human development progress in densely populated coastal zones which are home to one in seven people in the world, says Pedro Conceio, director of the United Nations Development Programmes Human Development Report Office. East Coast, Japan, and the west coast of South America.

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84% of the planet’s coral is now impacted by the worst reef bleaching event ever

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. One Dutch lab has worked with coral fragments, including some taken from off the coast of the Seychelles, to propagate them in a zoo so that they might be used someday to repopulate wild coral reefs if needed. Efforts are underway to conserve and restore coral.