Ningaloo and Great Barrier Reef hit by profoundly distressing simultaneous coral bleaching events

Australia’s two world heritage-listed reefs – Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east – have been hit simultaneously by coral bleaching that reef experts have called “heartbreaking” and “a profoundly distressing moment”. Teams of scientists on both coasts have been monitoring and tracking the heat stress and bleaching extending across thousands of kilometres of marine habitat, which is likely to have been driven by global heating. Map showing bleach alert levels on coastlines around Australia Key to bleach alert level codes On the Great Barrier Reef, bleaching is being detected from around Townsville to

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