(FILES) Fish and people swim by the coral reef in the waters of the Red Sea near the southern Israeli city of Eilat on September 14, 2023. Coral reefs could vanish in as little as a decade, warned a landmark UN report by dozens of global experts on December 17, 2024, impacting nearly one billion people who benefit from these highly threatened marine ecosystems. "Coral reefs are the most endangered ecosystems and may disappear globally in the next 10 to 50 years," said the report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)