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The Great Barrier Reef faces its biggest threat in centuries
The survival of the reef is essentially in human hands.
The Great Barrier Reef and surrounding waters have reached hotter temperatures over the past decade than they have in at least 400 years because of climate change, according to new research published in the journal Nature. If temperatures linger roughly 1 degree Celsius above what’s “normal” for the summer for more than two months, they can trigger mass coral bleaching events, according to a on the research published in Nature. The Great Barrier Reef in particular faces the prospect of bleaching every year in the near future, coauthor and professor of marine studies at the University of Queensland Ove Hoegh-Guldberg said in the press briefing.
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