The Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral system off the coast of Australia, is at a high risk of being included in UNESCO’s ‘World Heritage in Danger’ list, an official said on Friday. Canberra last year narrowly avoided the UN body putting the site on its endangered list and[Read More…]
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Great Barrier Reef corals in Australia are now dead
Almost a quarter of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia which is 1,400 miles long, with 2,900 individual reefs and 1,050 islands is now dead. The coral deaths followed intense coral bleaching, which was caused by global warming and influenced by the whims of the weather Hot[Read More…]