#ClimateWarming deals yet another blow to the #GreatBarrierReef
Reef managers confirmed Friday that aerial surveys detected #catastrophic #bleaching on 60 percent of the reef’s #corals. The discovery is particularly disturbing, researchers said, because a cooling #LaNiña #weather pattern in the #ocean usually offsets warming that stresses #coral and causes them to lose color.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/03/26/great-barrier-reef-bleaching-climate/