{
  "id": 16065061,
  "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",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T15:33:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Straits Times",
    "slug": "new-straits-times",
    "url": "https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2026/10/1561624/nearly-all-coral-reefs-risk-collapse-50-years-iucn"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has warned that nearly all of the world's shallow-water coral reefs face an extremely high risk of collapse by 2075 due to climate change. In the first global assessment of its kind, the IUCN classified 96 percent of the planet's coral reef systems as critically endangered, its highest risk category. Corals are heat sensitive and particularly vulnerable to human-driven climate change, which is warming the world's oceans and increasing the frequency and intensity of damaging bleaching events. The IUCN's assessment, presented at the UN's COP17 biodiversity summit in Yerevan, Armenia, used the middle-of-the-road scenario from the UN's panel of climate experts, projecting global temperatures rising 2.7C above pre-industrial levels by 2100. The world is currently on track for 2.6C warming this century under current global commitments to cut planet-heating emissions.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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      {
        "outlet": "Al-Monitor",
        "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",
        "published": "2026-10-22T11:30:23.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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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."
}