While coral reefs support 25% of all marine life worldwide, they are estimated to have a value of at least $1 trillion, generating $300 to 400 billion each year through food, tourism, fisheries, and medicines, according to the Word Wildlife Fund. 50 Reefs says that 90% of coral reefs have been dying of overfishing, pollution and climate change, and will keep on dying in the next 30 years even with the Paris Climate Agreement in place. In a time lapse video, coral reefs faded from florescent pink to white, and then to dark brown. Climate change hits the oceans harder than anywhere else and coral reefs are the “frontline of climate change,” according to Vevers. “We've always portrayed climate change and climate action as something negative,” he says, “That's the wrong way of communicating it.

Source: Forbes August 12, 2017 12:00 UTC