We’re often told that the sea temperature along the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is increasing and that soon the coral will be bleached and the reef be destroyed. But what’s the real story according to the data? The USA’s National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has a w...
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The Great Barrier Reef is made up of 2,900 separate reefs and 900 islands. It is unable to recover because there is not enough time between bleaching events. “We have already seen the first example of back-to-back bleaching — in the consecutive summers of 2016 and 2017,” Hughes sa...
Mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in Australia between 2016 and 2024 was driven by high sea surface temperatures (SST)1. The likelihood of temperature-induced bleaching is a key determinant for the future threat status of the GBR2
“This will change the Great Barrier Reef for ever,” Terry Hughes, an expert on coral reefs from James Cook University, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. “We’re seeing huge levels of bleaching in the northern thousand kilometer stretch of the Great Barrier Reef.” ...
“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 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...
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...
Many of the travelers who come to Australia head to the Great Barrier Reef, which at 133,000 square miles is about the size of California. It alone is responsible for about $6 billion AUD of the country’s total tourism revenue. An estimated 64,000 people have jobs that depend on reef ...
One quarter of the Great Barrier Reef suffered severe bleaching(漂白) this summer in the most widespread outbreak ever witnessed, according to analysis of aerial(天线)surveys of more than 1 ,000 individual reefs released on Tuesday.Dr David Wachenfeld, chief scientist at the Great Barrier Reef ...