The National Marine Fisheries Service announced Friday a final decision on whether to protect 66 corals as endangered species would be delayed until June 7. That will allow scientists to consider a substantial amount of new information that arrived in response to the original proposal. Seven of the species are found on South Florida reefs. The petition to protect these species came in 2009 from the Center for visit site Biological Diversity, an environmental group. The organization said the corals are declining due to disease, global warming and the gradual acidification for ocean http://valentineqybr.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/ocean-fish-acquire-more-mercury-at-depth/ water from carbon dioxide emitted by cars, factories and power plants. In comments to the agency, some scientists questioned whether sufficient data existed to blame climate change or ocean acidification for the declines of particular species, said Jennifer Moore, of the fisheries service.
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