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根据文章第一段的"It is now experiencing its third mass bleaching(白化)in five years, resulting in the death of large amounts of coral." 可知珊瑚白化会导致大量珊瑚死亡;根据文章第四段的"As more of the Great Barrier Reef bleaches and dies, the animals that depend on it will die off as ...
It is a loss that under normal circumstances would take a decade to recover from. “But now that bleaching is happening every year or every other year in some areas, recovery will be difficult if not impossible,” he says. “This is really scary, because the Great Barrier Reef is...
The Great Barrier Reef in Queensland has suffered several mass bleaching events due to the impacts of climate change. The Australian government turned down a proposal for a new open-cut coal mine near the Great Barrier Reef, considering environmental laws and the risk of"irreversible damage”. It...
CANBERRA, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Coral bleaching in Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef has been linked to a "marine heatwave". In a report published late on Tuesday, government scientists found that coral bleaching affected 91 percent of 719 reefs assessed along the Great Barrier Reef over the...
Widespread coral bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in 2016 is often reportedly caused by El Nino and/or global warming. However, the GBR is not in a region where it is straightforward to anticipate sea surface temperature (SST) warming during El Nino, and the role of climate ...
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority said the highest response level, which it described as a “severe regional bleaching”, allowed them to step up surveys to understand what was happening. Hunt said the government would fund a survey of 40 sites in the reef area, which had been in...
“Without urgent intervention, our iconic Great Barrier Reef is at risk of near-annual bleaching from high ocean temperatures. The Reef’s fundamental ecological integrity and outstanding universal value are at stake. “We have many of the key solutions to stop climate change; what we nee...
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority said in a weekly update most of the marine park had been hit by "significant heat stress" over the summer, with water temperatures in some areas as much as 2-4 degrees Celsius above average. "Bleaching has been detected across th...
Hughes said he took about 11 flights over nine days in March criss-crossing the full length of the Great Barrier Reef, surveying 1,036 reefs from the air to measure the extent and severity of the coral bleaching. What he saw was unprecedented. “For the first time, severe bleaching has s...