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Name: World's coral reef system under threat from record-breaking ocean heat
Uploaded: 2024-04-16T10:27:33.812Z
Duration: 2 min 36 s
Description: Coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time, a result of warming ocean waters, driven in part, by climate change. The event is expected to be the most extensive on record. For Australia's Great Barrier Reef, it's the fifth mass bleaching event in eight years.

World's coral reef system under threat from record-breaking ocean heat

Published 16 April 2024, 10:09 am

Coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time, a result of warming ocean waters, driven in part, by climate change. The event is expected to be the most extensive on record. For Australia's Great Barrier Reef, it's the fifth mass bleaching event in eight years.

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