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'Huge wake up call': Third of central, northern Great Barrier Reef corals dead

2016-05-29 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sydney Morning Herald: More than one-third of the coral reefs of the central and northern regions of the Great Barrier Reef have died in the huge bleaching event earlier this year, Queensland researchers said. Corals to the north of Cairns covering about two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef were found to have an average mortality rate of 35 per cent, rising to more than half in areas around Cooktown. Researchers inspected 84 reefs and found coral mortality rates of 50 per cent or more in the north of the Great...

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