SAN DIEGO — For plants, animals and marine life whose environment changes, their options are stark and simple: Move, adapt or die.
But when the marine life in question is a coral reef cemented to the ocean floor and the threat is climate change , the outlook appears grimmer, said scientists presenting new findings here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
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