MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say. But due to increasing coral cover since 2017, the coral deaths — caused mainly by bleaching last...
By Dr. Rafael D. Guerrero III The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) of Australia is the world’s coral reef system with an area of 344,000 square kilometers. Throughout the world, coral reefs provide coastal protection, food, medicine and tourism for millions of people. With the adverse impacts of climate...
SYDNEY, Australia – Australia's Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of "in danger" World Heritage sites, according to UN experts who warned the fading wonder has been "significantly impacted" by climate change. AFP PHOTO/ MANILA BULLETIN A UNESCO-tasked report said on Monday warming...
SYDNEY, Australia -- Parts of Australia's beleaguered Great Barrier Reef now have the highest levels of coral cover seen in decades, a government report said Thursday, suggesting the aquatic wonder could survive given the chance. Portions of the vast UNESCO heritage site showed a marked increase in...
CANBERRA, Australia -- 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 summer of...
SYDNEY, Australia -- Australia's Great Barrier Reef is suffering a "mass bleaching event" as coral comes under heat stress from warmer seas, reef authorities said Friday. An aerial survey showed coral bleaching at multiple reefs, "confirming a mass bleaching event, the fourth since 2016," said a...
