News about Climate change, coral reefs

🌡️The @‌IPCC_CH report rings alarm bells: As warming levels increase, so do the risks of species extinction & irreversible loss of biodiversity in ecosystems such as forests, coral reefs & Arctic regions. 📌This #BiodiversityDay, let's stand together to defend ecosystems. pic.twitter.com/EiUoeZHua0

After conducting aerial surveys of individual reefs in the Great Barrier Reef, more than half were rated as having high or very high levels of bleaching, alarming experts. 🪸 Read more from @adamlmorton for @guardianeco ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/11/great-barrier-reef-severe-coral-bleaching-impact

"It's really important that we see this as not business as usual, because it's not.” Marine heatwaves, fueled by climate pollution, have dealt blow after blow to the #GreatBarrierReef. Now, 73% of the Reef has suffered “prevalent bleaching” www.9news.com.au/national/great-barrier-reef-updates-marine-scientists-and-tour-operators-grapple-with-crisis-under-the-water-due-to-marine-heatwave-and-mass-bleaching-whitsundays-queensland-australia/66646789-99b6-4196-9c86-a84ff3216a2c

Scientists from three research stations on the Great Barrier Reef have shared sobering accounts of the damage inflicted by anthropogenic heating. www.nzherald.co.nz/world/great-barrier-reef-in-crisis-australian-scientists-despair-as-corals-perish/LD3RLND4OBCGJIT4DHQXWK5IGE/