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 ...

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 ...