Narrator: This is the Great Barrier Reef, and it's dying ... living structure as well as a home to thousands of plant and animal species. Jessica Carilli: Like with trees in a forest, the corals ...
turning the host animals skeletal white. Fleshy seaweeds may then choke out the remains. Major bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef and elsewhere in 1997-98 was linked to a severe El Niño year and ...
Listen to an audio recording from Lady Elliot Island on the Great Barrier Reef (2.2MB ... such as the blue whale, to be the loudest animal in the ocean. Reef sounds are beneficial to some marine ...
A team of marine scientists from the University of Sydney has published the first peer-reviewed study documenting the ...
within which other plants and animals live. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest structure ever made by life on Earth. It’s the length of the entire west coast of the USA. John O’Mahoney at ...
Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a new study reveals. From food security to controlling seaweed and even ...
Record-breaking ocean heat has taken a devastating toll on one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, with coral bleaching ...
Marine scientists highlights the complex interplay between heat stress, disease onset and coral mortality. They found that 66 percent of the colonies were bleached by February 2024 and 80 per cent by ...