Coral Reefs And Carbon Cycling | Climate

Last Update: 09/22/2026 at 11:33 PM EST

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Recent research links coral reef expansion and collapse to long-term carbon burial patterns that change how quickly Earth recovers from major CO2 shocks.

The dominant signal is a deep-time climate science finding, with modern reef loss framed as a possible shift in carbon-cycle behavior.

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The story is largely stable, but the framing has tightened around a deeper reconstruction of carbon-cycle behavior and a clearer statement that reef state may alter climate recovery timing. The new version also adds PNAS as the publication venue, reinforcing the scientific footing without changing the core thesis.

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