{"600598":{"#nid":"600598","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Heartbroken scientists lament the likely loss of \u2018most of the world\u2019s coral reefs\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECount \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/cobb-dr-kim\u0022\u003EKim Cobb\u003C\/a\u003E among those scientists who have become distraught about the rapidly deteriorating health of coral reefs worldwide due to climate change. Cobb, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E with expertise in coral reefs, has seen the damage of coral bleaching up close during dives to observe ecosystems near Hawaii in connection with her research. In this story, Cobb responds to a recent \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/359\/6371\/80\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E on the frequency of extreme bleaching events. Cobb is not affiliated with the study.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2018-01-09 20:44:32","changed_gmt":"2018-01-10 15:13:21","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"book review editor","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/grist.org\/article\/heartbroken-scientists-lament-the-likely-loss-of-most-of-the-worlds-coral-reefs\/","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"587899":{"id":"587899","type":"image","title":"Kim Cobb","body":null,"created":"1487947305","gmt_created":"2017-02-24 14:41:45","changed":"1501531001","gmt_changed":"2017-07-31 19:56:41","alt":"Kim Cobb","file":{"fid":"226379","name":"KimCobb_aug16_small.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KimCobb_aug16_small.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KimCobb_aug16_small.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":506095,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/KimCobb_aug16_small.jpg?itok=2mqqPd2c"}}},"media_ids":["587899"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"33791","name":"kim cobb"},{"id":"100711","name":"coral reefs"},{"id":"169211","name":"coral bleaching"},{"id":"791","name":"Global Warming"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"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":""}}}