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Unprecedented Coral Bleaching Engulfs the Great Barrier Reef Amid Rising Ocean Temperatures
The Great Barrier Reef endured its most extensive coral bleaching on record in 2024 due to soaring ocean temperatures, according to a new Australian government report. The bleaching, primarily attributed to climate change-induced heat stress,
A study has found concerning new evidence of long-term declines in coral reef fish around highly visited inshore islands of the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists surveyed reefs at 100 sites ...
Exposing its white skeleton, bleaching leaves coral more vulnerable to disease. In November, it was announced that the Reef had suffered its largest die-off on record.
FILE - In this photo provided by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority small fish school in waters of Ribbon Reef No 10 near Cairns, Australia, Sept. 12, 2017. Australia’s Great ...
More information: F. Javier González-Barrios et al, Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef, Nature Communications ...
Approximately 89 percent of The Great Barrier Reef is dead or dying. Countless species of “reef fish” have fled the decaying ecosystem, and others like it, taking with them the essential ...
Decades of degradation The site, which attracts millions of tourists each year, is the world's largest coral reef, home to some 400 types of coral, 1500 species of fish and 4000 varieties of ...
FILE – In this photo provided by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority small fish school in waters of Ribbon Reef No 10 near Cairns, Australia, Sept. 12, 2017.
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