photo: Jon Hanson via flickr. Here’s another potent warning about the real economic value that intact ecosystems have: New Scientist reports that ecological economist Pavan Sukdev, from the UNEP and lead author of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity has calculated that the world’s coral reefs … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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$172 Billion Will Be Sucked From Global Economy Every Year if We Let Coral Reefs Die Off