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Great Barrier Reef suffers its most widespread mass bleaching event on record
By Maddie Stone
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Great Barrier Reef suffers third mass bleaching event in five years
By Helen Regan
Snow-white coral of once-vibrant Great Barrier Reef a sign urgent action must be taken
By Adam Morton
The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread bleaching yet
By Alice Klein
We just spent two weeks surveying the Great Barrier Reef. What we saw was an utter tragedy
By Terry Hughes & Morgan S. Pratchett
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Australian Institute of Marine Science
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Check out this reef at Orpheus Island pre-bleaching and during the mass #coralbleaching event on the #GreatBarrierReef ⬇️
#EcoRRAP have stitched 1000s of digital images together to understand how corals change, grow and are affected by bleaching events.
(1/2) pic.twitter.com/BG0E9mfyvm
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Climate Council
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Prof Terry Hughes, a coral bleaching expert at James Cook University said unless fossil fuel emissions are cut “ASAP”, the corals of the world’s reefs will be replaced by something else, perhaps seaweed or sponges.
www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/01/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-crisis
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Terry Hughes
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“… any….”
Indefensible wording to minimise the worse mass-mortality of corals ever recorded on the Great Barrier Reef. pic.twitter.com/xUCKvro6Gd
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Terry Hughes
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In Australia, the Australian government has spent $160m over the past 5 years on hopeful inventions to save the Great Barrier Reef.
So far, it hasn’t saved a single coral from mass mortality during bleaching events. pic.twitter.com/OqJMBBJxUy
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