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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 ...
A school of fish swim through a break in the coral along the Great Barrier Reef on August 10, 2022, on Hastings Reef, Australia. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty ...
Assorted reef fish swim above a finger coral colony as it grows on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Cairns, Australia October 25, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo Purchase ...
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 ...
Australia has experienced coral die-offs beginning in 2015 at the Great Barrier Reef, when heat waves there caused excessively high water temperatures a few years in a row.
Among the 87 reefs surveyed for the latest report, average hard coral cover in the north increased to 36%, up from 27% in 2021, and to 33% in the central reef from 26% last year.
Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals. From food security to controlling seaweed and even ...
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