‘Wake-up call to humanity’: research shows the Great Barrier Reef is the hottest it’s been in 400 years
Source:THE CONVERSATION The Great Barrier Reef is vast and spectacular. But repeated mass coral bleachings, driven by high ocean temperatures, are threatening the survival of coral colonies which are the backbone of the reef. Our study, published today in Nature, provides a new long-term picture of the ocean surface temperatures driving coral bleaching. It shows…