Great Barrier Reef die-off - the latest harbinger of a global mass extinction?

The Ecologist
Apr 11, 2016, 12:42 pm46 pts
Large areas of the Great Barrier Reef are dying in what may be its greatest ever 'bleaching' event, writes James Dyke. The mass loss of the photosynthetic algae that sustain the coral is the result of this year's massive 'El Niño' perturbation to Pacific weather patterns, and global warming. Australia's…

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