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Fifth mass coral bleaching event in eight years hits Great Barrier Reef, marine park authority confirms
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/08/coral-bleaching-great-barrier-reef-australia
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The Great Barrier Reef is in the grip of a mass coral bleaching event driven by global heating – the fifth in only eight years – the marine park’s government authority has confirmed.
“These surveys confirm a widespread, often called mass, coral bleaching event is unfolding across the Great Barrier Reef,” the authority said in an update.
Dr Neal Cantin, senior research scientist at Aims, said: “We now need to combine the spatial coverage captured from the air with in-water surveys to assess the severity of coral bleaching in deeper reef habitats across the different regions of the Marine Park.”
Diana Kleine, project manager of Coral Watchat the University of Queensland, has been at Heron Island off Gladstone in the reef’s south.
Lyle Vail, co-director of the Australian Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station in the north of the reef, said corals started to show heat stress in early February.
“Australia’s current target of a 43% cut in carbon pollution by 2030 is consistent with a 2C warming pathway, which equates to the loss of 99% of the world’s coral reefs.”
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