ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — From across the world to right here in New York are lessons we can learn from studying climate change in the Great Barrier Reef. I’m told it’s all about taking action.

Narrator: This is the Great Barrier Reef, and it's dying. Less than 20 years ago, the world's largest living structure looked like this, and this. But today, ongoing pressures from climate change ...

Recovery is possible in some instances (if climate change doesn’t continue to make matters worse), but it can take decades. The series of mass coral bleaching events that killed vast areas of reef ...

To say that the Great Barrier ... Panel on Climate Change projects annual bleachings by as early as 2030. One possible result: a "functionally extinct" ecosystem by 2050. The reef attracts about ...