The Great Barrier Reef Has Suffered Its Most Widespread Bleaching Yet Over the 2023–24 summer, the heat returned with a vengeance, triggering widespread coral bleaching. but bleached coral isn’t dead yet – it’s very stressed. the summer’s bleaching is only just winding up now, in august. we won’t know how much coral actually died until we complete our next round of surveys. Stretching over 2,300km (1,400 miles) off australia's north east coast, the great barrier reef is the world's largest coral system and one of its most biodiverse habitats.
Photos Coral Bleaching Of Great Barrier Reef Cnn Corporate. reef health. the 2023−24 summer has seen substantial climate driven impacts across the great barrier reef, with widespread coral bleaching, two cyclones and several severe flood events. the reef snapshot 2023−24, released today by the reef authority, australian institute of marine science (aims) and the csiro, confirms the. Abnormally warm waters are stressing australia's great barrier reef, causing large parts of the usually colorful reef to turn a ghostly white. aerial surveys detected catastrophic coral bleaching. Prior to these events, there was no other evidence of widespread bleaching events in the great barrier reef’s 500 year coral record keeping history, according to the australian institute of. Australia's great barrier reef has been hit by widespread coral bleaching repeatedly in recent years, where marine heat waves have turned large parts of the reef a ghostly white. now, it looks.
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