Great Barrier Grief

Great Barrier Grief

Back-to-Back Bleaching Years for the World’s Largest Coral Reef Ecosystem A dreaded and unprecedented new wave of mass bleaching is unfolding on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, according to Australia’s lead management agency for the world’s...
2016: Worst Bleaching in History on GBR

2016: Worst Bleaching in History on GBR

CAIRNS, Australia “This has been the saddest research trip of my life,” says Prof. Terry Hughes, convenor of the National Coral Bleaching Taskforce. “Almost without exception, every reef we flew across showed consistently high levels of bleaching, from the reef slope...