Category: coral bleaching

Most of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Seeing Record High Coral Coverage Despite Bleaching Events

August 4, 2022
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The Great Barrier Reef is seeing record high levels of coral cover across two-thirds of the world’s largest coral reef system since monitoring began 36 years ago, according to a new report by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). Between August 2021 and May 2022, the 87 representative reefs surveyed revealed average hard coral…

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Soft Corals Show Greater Resilience to Bleaching During Marine Heatwaves

June 16, 2022
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The soft corals of Lord Howe Island, approximately 700 kilometres northeast of Sydney, are demonstrating greater resilience to coral bleaching than the hard corals of the island, marine biologists have found. Led by the University of New South Wales (NSW), the team surveyed the island’s coral reef—the world’s most southern—during, immediately after, and seven months…

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