The French environmental health agency has confirmed the negative impact of certain chemicals on coral, including several substances present in sunscreens. With territories in three tropical oceans, France harbours ten percent of the world’s coral, which is already under threat from climate change.
The French Agency for food, environmental and occupational health (Anses), has urged the French government to limit – or enforce limits on – runoffs of chemicals that could harm coral reefs, which provide fifty percent of the earth’s oxygen, and are currently under threat.
