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Australia: Bleaching May Have Killed Half the Coral on the Northern Great Barrier Reef, Scientists Say
2016-05-29 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in the past three months has killed as much as half of the coral in the north but left large parts of the southern reaches with only minor damage, scientists in Australia said on Sunday. The current bleaching is the third to strike the roughly 1,400-mile-long reef in 18 years and the most extreme scientists have recorded. In the north, the mortality rates are off the scale, said Prof. Terry Hughes, the director of the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral...
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