Tag: Great Barrier Reef

WASHINGTON: Research shows that water temperatures around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have risen to their highest in 400 years over the last decade, putting the world’s largest reef in danger. The Great Barrier Reef, the largest living ecosystem on Earth, stretches over 2,400 km along Queensland’s coast. Scientists from various Australian universities drilled into the […]

Half of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals have died over the past 25 years, scientists said Wednesday, warning that climate change is irreversibly destroying the underwater ecosystem. A study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Journal found an alarming rate of decline across all sizes of corals since the mid-1990s on the vast World […]