Inter Press Service: Efforts to create an inventory of life on Australia’s major coral reefs — to be used as part of a baseline to determine the impacts of global warming and overfishing upon reefs — have turned up hundreds of previously unknown and rare species. Scientists released the first results of a four-year study into the biodiversity of some of Australia’s most well-known coral reefs on Sep.19. While the findings — which include around 300 soft coral species, of which 50 percent are …