Corals at Risk on the Great Barrier Reef (IMAGE)
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Although deep reefs are often considered a refuge from thermal anomalies, this new study argues that both shallow and deep reefs are under threat of mass bleaching events. A team of scientists focused on the mass bleaching event in 2016 that caused the death of 30% of shallow-water corals on the Great Barrier Reef. The study details how the impacts of this bleaching lessened over depth, but were still substantial on deep reefs.
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© Pedro Frade
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