Communities along Australia's coast can expect major changes in marine life in the coming decades. Photo: Darren England/AAP PHOTOS

Coastal communities can expect to find different marine life occupying their waters by 2040 as climate change extremes of recent years become "the new normal".

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Even with aggressive cuts to emissions Australia's ocean conditions will cross a "climate horizon" in the next 15 years and experience sea surface temperatures, ocean acidity, oxygen loss and marine heatwaves outside the ranges experienced in recent millennia.

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