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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has been hit by widespread coral bleaching ... There’s also extensive bleaching in the soft corals, and it is also affecting anemones and giant clams ...
On the right, a satellite image of part of the Great Barrier Reef as seen from space. First, there’s a stark difference between hard and soft coral. Hard coral are the building blocks of reefs.
Coral is making a comeback across much of the Great Barrier Reef but the record resurgence could be quickly undone, scientists warn. Coral cover has bounced back across two thirds of the Great Barrier ...
The amount of coral in some areas of the Great Barrier Reef is at its highest in 36 years, according to a new report from the Australian Institute of Marine Science. From August 2021 to May 2022 ...
One of the world’s treasures, the Great Barrier Reef, just suffered from its worst coral die-off ever recorded, Australian scientists announced Monday. Stress from unusually warm ocean water ...
The Great Barrier Reef – the world's largest reef system that's "one of the richest and most complex natural ecosystems on Earth" – is once again undergoing a mass coral bleaching event.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faces critical danger from back-to-back bouts of extreme ocean heat. Ocean heat in the Coral Sea is at its highest in four centuries, scientists report in the Aug ...
This causes it to turn a pale, bone-white color and eventually kills the coral. According to a report last week by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, more than half of the 1,000 reefs ...
In a new study, they track the rapid rate at which coral colonies in the Southern Great Barrier Reef faced bleaching and then ...
Marine scientists have found part of the Great Barrier Reef has recorded its highest amount of coral cover in nearly four decades, although they warn the reef’s rehabilitation could unwind ...
Further, the researchers say that this region of the Great Barrier Reef experienced massive death rates, with more than 44 percent of the bleached coral dying off by July. Some, like coral genera ...