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The media (and annual reports) tend to focus on single catastrophic climate events.
Yes, the 2024 coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef was terrible.
But it’s the cumulative impacts of recurring disasters that matters in the longer term.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
Yes, the 2024 coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef was terrible.
But it’s the cumulative impacts of recurring disasters that matters in the longer term.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
August 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The media (and annual reports) tend to focus on single catastrophic climate events.
Yes, the 2024 coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef was terrible.
But it’s the cumulative impacts of recurring disasters that matters in the longer term.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
Yes, the 2024 coral bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef was terrible.
But it’s the cumulative impacts of recurring disasters that matters in the longer term.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...
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AFP fact check: “Pour sauver la Barrière de Corail, le monde doit rapidement réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre", appelle moi.
Culling a few starfish won’t climate-proof coral reefs. factuel.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Culling a few starfish won’t climate-proof coral reefs. factuel.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factuel.afp.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
AFP fact check: “Pour sauver la Barrière de Corail, le monde doit rapidement réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre", appelle moi.
Culling a few starfish won’t climate-proof coral reefs. factuel.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
Culling a few starfish won’t climate-proof coral reefs. factuel.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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The image of dying corals comes from Lizard Island in 2016, not 2024.
Here’s a comparison of coral mortality in the northern Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and 2024.
Here’s a comparison of coral mortality in the northern Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and 2024.
August 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The image of dying corals comes from Lizard Island in 2016, not 2024.
Here’s a comparison of coral mortality in the northern Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and 2024.
Here’s a comparison of coral mortality in the northern Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and 2024.
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″Following the consideration of rigorous scientific and other advice, a proposed decision to approve the North West Shelf gas development has been made”.
Of course, ‘consideration’ actually means ‘dismissal’.
Of course, ‘consideration’ actually means ‘dismissal’.
📢 The west-coast reef has largely escaped the curse of coral bleaching that has blighted the Great Barrier Reef. This year, that’s changed.
‘You realise your children are probably never going to see Ningaloo the way you saw it’
www.smh.com.au
August 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
″Following the consideration of rigorous scientific and other advice, a proposed decision to approve the North West Shelf gas development has been made”.
Of course, ‘consideration’ actually means ‘dismissal’.
Of course, ‘consideration’ actually means ‘dismissal’.
Outrageous!
In June 2024 UNESCO urged Australia “to MAKE PUBLIC the extent of coral death as soon as possible”.
But there was an election in the way, and government scientists were gagged until 18 months after the 2024 die-off began.
But there was an election in the way, and government scientists were gagged until 18 months after the 2024 die-off began.
Great Barrier Reef suffers biggest annual drop in live coral since 1980s after devastating coral bleaching
August 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Outrageous!
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So far, 98% of the Great Barrier Reef has experienced coral bleaching at least once in 2016, 2017, 2020’ 2022, 2024 and 2025.
In 2016, 51% of corals died in the northern third of the Reef - an even bigger loss there than in 2024.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
So far, 98% of the Great Barrier Reef has experienced coral bleaching at least once in 2016, 2017, 2020’ 2022, 2024 and 2025.
In 2016, 51% of corals died in the northern third of the Reef - an even bigger loss there than in 2024.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
August 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
“Parts”
So far, 98% of the Great Barrier Reef has experienced coral bleaching at least once in 2016, 2017, 2020’ 2022, 2024 and 2025.
In 2016, 51% of corals died in the northern third of the Reef - an even bigger loss there than in 2024.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
So far, 98% of the Great Barrier Reef has experienced coral bleaching at least once in 2016, 2017, 2020’ 2022, 2024 and 2025.
In 2016, 51% of corals died in the northern third of the Reef - an even bigger loss there than in 2024.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Mike Hudema
Water temperatures around Australia's Great Barrier Reef were the warmest they've been in over 400 years this year, according to new research.
Scientists say the reef is facing "catastrophic damage."
No time to waste. ActOnClimate
Water temperatures around Australia's Great Barrier Reef were the warmest they've been in over 400 years this year, according to new research.
Scientists say the reef is facing "catastrophic damage."
No time to waste. ActOnClimate
August 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Mike Hudema
Water temperatures around Australia's Great Barrier Reef were the warmest they've been in over 400 years this year, according to new research.
Scientists say the reef is facing "catastrophic damage."
No time to waste. ActOnClimate
Water temperatures around Australia's Great Barrier Reef were the warmest they've been in over 400 years this year, according to new research.
Scientists say the reef is facing "catastrophic damage."
No time to waste. ActOnClimate
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Interview re coral reefs with Scientific American:
“We shouldn’t give up on the world’s coral reefs…. But restoration is not the way to save them.
The way to save them is to deal with greenhouse gas emissions, & that, of course, is much, much harder.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/eart...
“We shouldn’t give up on the world’s coral reefs…. But restoration is not the way to save them.
The way to save them is to deal with greenhouse gas emissions, & that, of course, is much, much harder.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/eart...
Earth’s Coral Reefs Face a New, Deadly Mass Bleaching. They Can Still Be Saved
“A mass bleaching event is, by definition, a mass mortality event,” a leading coral reef expert says
www.scientificamerican.com
January 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Interview re coral reefs with Scientific American:
“We shouldn’t give up on the world’s coral reefs…. But restoration is not the way to save them.
The way to save them is to deal with greenhouse gas emissions, & that, of course, is much, much harder.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/eart...
“We shouldn’t give up on the world’s coral reefs…. But restoration is not the way to save them.
The way to save them is to deal with greenhouse gas emissions, & that, of course, is much, much harder.”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/eart...