Western Australia’s Ningaloo has experienced the highest level of heat stress ever recorded, while coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef has been detected from Townsville to Cape York ...

In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves caused by climate change resulted in mass bleaching, which killed about half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef, along with many others around the world.

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The Great Barrier ... the reef has long been a symbol of biodiversity and natural beauty, but rising ocean temperatures and climate change are threatening its very survival. At the heart of ...