A major analysis of global coral reef health has raised concern about the frequency of bleaching events in Western Australia.It points to climate change as the main cause of coral bleaching, showed the state had experienced more coral bleaching in recent decades than the Great Barrier Reef.
It also found 14 per cent of the world's coral was killed in the space of a decade between 2009 and 2018, attributing it primarily to rapid or sustained anomalous rises in sea surface temperature. "Anomalously high sea surface temperatures have occurred on the Great Barrier Reef every year since 2012 and have remained persistently high during the last two decades.Great Barrier Reef struggles to recover
But it found the cumulative impact of thermal stress, coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish and cyclones meant those gains were "erased"."Average hard coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef in 2019 was 24 per cent, which equates to an overall loss of 27.6 per cent of the coral on the [reef] between 1996 and 2019," the report said.Dr Souter said there was still hope for reefs, which showed strong and at times surprising resilience to increased ocean temperatures.
ABC on its eco evangelistic agenda again: in case you dont read your own stories the GBR is just fine and recovered nicely from any minor and normal cycles ...
Thanks to Chevron raping the land of it`s resources.
Scotty policies will finish of the rest and the great barrier reef, Scott's and his Liberal parties gift to Australians, a dead GBReef, scott deserves monument.
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