Great Barrier Reef – Update
For the first time ever, severe bleaching has struck all three regions of the Great Barrier Reef – the northern, central and southern parts.
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Great Barrier Reef hit by third major bleaching event in five years
Great Barrier Reef hit by third major bleaching event in 5 years. This is a stark sentinel for Climate Change, it has never happened before.
Great Barrier Reef – Outlook Report 2019
Every five years, an Outlook Report that examines the Great Barrier Reef’s health, pressures, and likely future is published. The latest, the 2019 edition, is now available. It is very grim reading. If you have your finger on the pulse of the Great Barrier Reef then what it reveals will not be a surprise. The Great Barrier … Read more
The impact of climate change upon coral reefs
New Study reveals that the number of corals settling on Great Barrier Reef declined by 89% following unprecedented loss of adult corals from global warming in 2016 and 2017
Study: #GreatBarrierReef at ‘unprecedented’ risk of collapse after major bleaching event
I’ve previously written about the 2016 bleaching event at the great barrier reef back in 2016. The update is that a new paper has just been published in Nature that contains a scientific analysis of what happened. Entitled “Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages“, it explains … Our study bridges the gap between the theory … Read more
2018 is the International Year of the Reef
2018 has been designated the International Year of the reef. This is in fact the 3rd “International Year of the Reef”. The first was in 1997 in response to the increasing threats Coral Reefs then faced and was designed to increase awareness of that. It worked well because over 225 organisations spread across 50 nations … Read more