MARSA ALAM, Egypt: Beneath the waters off Egypt's Red Sea coast a kaleidoscopic ecosystem teems with life that could become the world's "last coral refuge" as global heating eradicates reefs elsewhere, researchers say.

Most shallow water corals, battered and bleached white by repeated marine heat waves, are "unlikely to last the century," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said this year.

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