Coral reefs cross survival threshold in Earth’s first major climate tipping point

FRANCE 24 English 2025-10-14

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FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Professor Tim Lenton, founding director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, and lead author of the Global Tipping Points report, which has revealed that the world’s coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off, marking what scientists describe as the first “tipping point” in climate-driven ecosystem collapse.

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