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Large Sections of Australia's Great Reef Are Now Dead, Scientists Find
Sunday, 19 March 2017 12:47

Excerpt: "The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has long been one of the world's most magnificent natural wonders, so enormous it can be seen from space, so beautiful it can move visitors to tears."

Severe bleaching last year on the northern Great Barrier Reef affected even the largest and oldest corals, like this slow-growing Porites colony. (photo: Credit Terry Hughes et al./Nature)
Severe bleaching last year on the northern Great Barrier Reef affected even the largest and oldest corals, like this slow-growing Porites colony. (photo: Credit Terry Hughes et al./Nature)

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Large Sections of Australia's Great Reef Are Now Dead, Scientists Find

By Damien Cave and Justin Gillis, The New York Times

19 March 17

 

he Great Barrier Reef in Australia has long been one of the world’s most magnificent natural wonders, so enormous it can be seen from space, so beautiful it can move visitors to tears.

But the reef, and the profusion of sea creatures living near it, are in profound trouble.

Huge sections of the Great Barrier Reef, stretching across hundreds of miles of its most pristine northern sector, were recently found to be dead, killed last year by overheated seawater. More southerly sections around the middle of the reef that barely escaped then are bleaching now, a potential precursor to another die-off that could rob some of the reef’s most visited areas of color and life.

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