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Climate change is the greatest threat to the Great Barrier Reef, experts say.The Great Barrier Reef experienced its fourth mass bleaching event on record in 2022 and scientists from an Australian government agency, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (...
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — An aerial survey of the Great Barrier Reef shows coral bleaching is sweeping across the area off the east of Australia for the third time in five years.
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Unprecedented coral bleaching in consecutive years has damaged two-thirds of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, aerial surveys have shown. 航空勘测发现,近年连续发生的珊瑚白化问题空前严重,澳大利亚三分之二的大堡礁已遭到重创。 The bleaching - or loss of algae - affects a 1,500km (932 miles) area of...
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...
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...
2The Great Barrier Reef has seen its third mass bleaching (大规模白化) event in five years. For the first time, all three sections of the Australian reef have been badly affected. The damage happened in February when the area was exposed to the hottest month of water temperatures on record...
“For the first time, severe bleaching has struck all three regions of the Great Barrier Reef – the northern, central and now large parts of the southern sectors,” he said. Of the reefs surveyed this year about a quarter were severely affected, while a further 35% had modest levels of...
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 ...