{"524381":{"#nid":"524381","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why dead coral reefs could mark the beginning of \u2018dangerous\u2019 climate change","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe island of Kiritimati is one of the world\u2019s most remote places \u2014 one of several dozen atolls making up the tiny island nation of Kiribati, a speck in the Pacific Ocean more than a thousand miles south of Hawaii. But, isolated as it is, news of its devastated coral is turning heads around the world. A recent expedition has revealed that the reefs around Kiritimati have suffered a catastrophic mass die-off \u2014 an event that epitomizes what may be an ugly truth about the ability of coral reefs around the world to adapt to the growing threat of climate change.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27570","created_gmt":"2016-04-13 16:20:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:28:04","author":"Will Rusk","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"cohort","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2016\/04\/12\/why-dead-coral-reefs-stir-fears-of-dangerous-climate-change\/","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2262","name":"climate"},{"id":"61541","name":"Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}