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Mass bleaching of coral reefs caused by climate change and warming oceans, scientists say

This photo supplied by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) shows reef scape of bleached coral in the Townsville/Whitsunday management area of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, March. 15, 2015. More than 90% of Great Barrier Reef coral surveyed in 2022 was bleached in the fourth such mass event in seven years in the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem, Australian government scientists said in its an annual report released late Tuesday, May 10, 2022. (C. Jones/GBRMPA via AP)




Coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching as a result of warming oceans and human-caused climate change, top scientists have said.



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