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Australian PM pledges A$1 bln to help ailing Great Barrier Reef
2016-06-13 06:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, facing a tight re-election battle, pledged on Monday a A$1 billion ($738 million) fund for the Great Barrier Reef, where scientists say mass coral bleaching has destroyed vast tracts of the World Heritage site. A report late last month said mass coral bleaching, caused by climate change, had destroyed at least 35 percent of the northern and central Great Barrier Reef and that the coral mortality rate would likely rise. The report cast a shadow over...
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