Coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef. ABC News (Australia) / YouTube screenshot
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In the past eight years, the Great Barrier Reef — the largest coral reef in the world, stretching 1,429 miles — has experienced five mass bleaching events, tied by scientists to climate change.
Most recently, corals around six islands in Turtle Group National Park, located about 6.2 miles off Australia’s Queensland Coast, have seen extensive bleaching, according to scientists from James Cook University, as reported by Reuters.
“It was quite devastating to see just how much bleaching there was, particularly in the shallows… (but) they were all still at the stage of…
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