AFP: Thousands of hectares of mangroves in Australia's remote north have died, scientists said Monday, with climate change the likely cause.
Some 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres), or nine percent of the mangroves in the Gulf of Carpentaria, perished in just one month according to researchers from Australia's James Cook University, the first time such an event has been recorded.
It follows massive coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef from climate change and the news last week that warmer ocean...