Australia's Great Barrier Reef is hit with mass coral bleaching yet again
Some corals have turned a ghostly white due to extreme heat stress. It's the fourth bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef in the last seven years, which makes it harder to recover.
by Lauren Sommer
Mar 26, 2022
2 minutes
Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been hit by widespread coral bleaching repeatedly in recent years, where marine heat waves have turned large parts of the reef a ghostly white.
Now, it looks like the fourth mass bleaching in the last seven years is unfolding.
Abnormally hot ocean temperatures, as high as 7 degrees Fahrenheit above average, have stressed the reef in recent
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