A team of international scientists, including a researcher from The University of Western Australia, has found that soil erosion, land degradation and climate change pose a mounting threat to coastal reefs and their ecosystems in the western Indian Ocean. The study examined sediment and freshwater discharge over recent decades in two catchments in Madagascar”s Antongil Bay and the island nation”s Great Barrier Reef of Tulear, and the climatic processes that drive them…. Source
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