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Biodiversity Hot Spots: Top 10 sea locales make sobering list

By Jessica Gorman

- More than 2 years ago

For the first time, biologists have identified the world’s most vulnerable coral reefs. Each so-called hot spot is a marine region rife with organisms found nowhere else and threatened by human influence.

REEFS UNDER DURESS. This Red Sea coral reef is among the world’s most vulnerable.