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How The Great Barrier Reef Formed Over Time - Explained By Marine Biologists

It demonstrates that the onset of reef growth on the outer shelf was preceded by a rise in summer temperature from ~26° to ~28°C at around 700 thousand years ago (marine isotope stage 17). This ...
Inside Climate News

Corals Have ‘No Reprieve’ as the Great Barrier Reef Faces Its Latest Bleaching Event

For the past nine months, the world has repeatedly smashed heat records on land. But February marked a particularly unsettling record for the ocean: Average global sea surfaces climbed to the hottest ...
The Conversation

Will surging sea levels kill the Great Barrier Reef? Ancient coral fossils may hold the answer

Jody Webster receives funding from the Australian Research Council and ANZIC IODP. Juan Carlos Braga receives funding from the Australian Research Council and Spanish Government. Marc Humblet receives ...
The Economist

The Great Barrier Reef is seeing unprecedented coral bleaching

THE GREAT Barrier Reef is a natural marvel. Spanning 2,300km along the north-east coast of Australia, this vast ecosystem boasts hundreds of species of multicoloured corals across an area roughly the ...
CNN

‘Like wildfires underwater’: Worst summer on record for Great Barrier Reef as coral die-off sweeps planet

As the early-morning sun rises over the Great Barrier Reef, its light pierces the turquoise waters of a shallow lagoon, bringing more than a dozen turtles to life. These waters that surround Lady ...
CounterPunch

Killing The Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef has been seriously damaged by too much ocean heat. According to University of Sydney: The damage is at catastrophic levels. And as stated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
USA Today

Parts of Great Barrier Reef record highest number of coral in nearly 4 decades, scientists say

Marine scientists have found part of the Great Barrier Reef has recorded its highest amount of coral cover in nearly four decades, although they warn the reef’s rehabilitation could unwind quickly ...
Science Daily

Great Barrier Reef fish evidence suggests shifts in major global biodiversity patterns

Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals. From food security to controlling seaweed and even making ...
CNN

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef suffers ‘extensive’ coral bleaching, as scientists fear seventh mass bleaching event

The southern Great Barrier Reef is suffering from extensive coral bleaching due to heat stress, the reef’s managers said Wednesday, raising fears that a seventh mass bleaching event could be unfolding ...
The Conversation

There’s a hidden source of excess nutrients suffocating the Great Barrier Reef. We found it

The authors receive funding from the Australian Research Council, the Herman Slade Foundation and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. Damien Maher receives funding from the Australian Research Council, ...
Forbes

The Great Barrier Reef Just Got Closer For Some North Americans

A new Fiji Airways route cuts travel time for North Americans traveling to the Great Barrier Reef from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas-Fort Worth or Vancouver. ByRoger Sands, Contributor. Forbes ...
Forbes

The Best Way To Experience Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

On Australia's Great Barrier Reef with Passions of Paradise. I’ve been fortunate to snorkel in the Red Sea, the Galapagos Islands, and various reefs in Hawaii and the Caribbean. None came remotely ...