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Great Barrier Reef hit by more bleaching
1 month ago

Great Barrier Reef hit by more bleaching

ABC  

Rachel Mealey: Last summer's extreme heat coupled with two cyclones in far north Queensland led to a mass coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef. Michael Slezak: Yeah, so look, a complete picture of the reef and which parts are worst hit is not quite available from the survey, but from the reefs that they have looked at, it's …

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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffers worst bleaching on record
8 months, 1 week ago

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffers worst bleaching on record

Al Jazeera  

The 2,300km reef is in its fifth mass bleaching event since 2016 with aerial surveys showing the scale of damage. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, which stretches for some 2,300km off the country’s northeastern coast, is suffering its worst bleaching event on record. “This prolonged heat exposure has caused mass bleaching of coral reef communities observed within all three regions of …

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Coral bleaching: Ocean heat is driving a mass bleaching event, and it could be the worst on record
8 months, 1 week ago

Coral bleaching: Ocean heat is driving a mass bleaching event, and it could be the worst on record

CNN  

CNN — Coral reefs around the world are experiencing a mass bleaching event as the climate crisis drives record-breaking ocean heat, two scientific bodies announced Monday — with some experts warning this could become the worst bleaching period in recorded history. NOAA predicts La Niña, El Niño’s cooler counterpart, could arrive between June and August this year, which provides “a …

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Could ‘marine cloud brightening’ reduce coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef?
1 year, 2 months ago

Could ‘marine cloud brightening’ reduce coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef?

The Hindu  

It might sound like science fiction, but “marine cloud brightening” is being seriously considered as a way to shield parts of the ocean from extreme heat. Australia’s Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program – a collaboration between several universities, CSIRO and the Australian Institute of Marine Science – is exploring whether cloud brightening could reduce coral bleaching. A bright idea British …

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Global heating kills half the corals on the Great Barrier Reef
4 years, 2 months ago

Global heating kills half the corals on the Great Barrier Reef

Al Jazeera  

New research finds corals on vast Australian reef increasingly unable to recover from heat-caused bleaching. Half the corals on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have died over the past 25 years, scientists said Wednesday, warning that climate change is irreversibly destroying the World Heritage-listed underwater ecosystem. “They’re typically depleted by 80 or 90 percent compared to 25 years ago,” report co-author …

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