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22.04 - 19:19
Climate Change Tracker: The Great Barrier bleaches again
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The Great Barrier Reef just underwent a third mass bleaching event in five years With the world in the grip of a pandemic, news of the ongoing climate catastrophe tends to slip under the radar.
But it continues to unfold. Last week, the Great Barrier Reef underwent a massive bleaching event. An aerial survey of 1,020 individual reefs of the 2,300km-long system by park authorities confirmed this.
Bleaching of this severity means that the affected reefs are dead and will never recover. The event was the third such mass bleaching instance in five years, perilously close to an almost annual cycle.
This frequency, according to experts, means two things. One, we are either close to passing or have already passed a particular threshold of ocean
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