{
  "id": 16036546,
  "title": "Nearly all coral reefs risk collapse in 50 years: IUCN",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/nearly-all-coral-reefs-risk-collapse-in-50-years-iucn",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T11:30:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Al-Monitor",
    "slug": "al-monitor",
    "url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/10/nearly-all-coral-reefs-risk-collapse-50-years-iucn"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nearly all of the world's shallow-water coral reefs face an \"extremely high risk\" of collapse by 2075 due to climate change, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) warned Thursday. In the first global assessment of its kind, the world authority on threatened wildlife classified 96 percent of the planet's coral reef systems as \"critically endangered\" -- its highest risk category.",
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      {
        "outlet": "New Straits Times",
        "title": "Nearly all coral reefs risk collapse in 50 years: IUCN",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/nearly-all-coral-reefs-risk-collapse-in-50-years-iucn-16065061",
        "published": "2026-10-22T15:33:34.000Z"
      }
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}