Australia's Great Barrier Reef in trouble due to warmer ocean currents

Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef has once again begun to show new signs of coral bleaching. According to government ncy responsible or monitoring Great Barrier Reef, re have been several signs of heat stress in multiple regions. This greatly increases prospects of ar major bleaching event.

Warmer ocean currents

According to Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, a prolonged period of warm ocean currents has led to an increase of 2 to 3 degrees in temperature during hottest month of year on reef. According to Dr David Wachenfeld, authority's chief scientist, said in his weekly video update, rise in temperatures is very concerning and it has only intensified in last week.

marine park authority is using all its resource such as divers, helicopter patrols, and observations by public to investigate renewed bleaching. According to Mr Lyle Vail, who is director of Australian Museum's Lizard Island Research Station, he has observed a large per cent of coral present in shallow waters display varying levels of coral bleaching.

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Great Barrier Reef encompasses 2,300 kilometres in Australia's rastern coast and spans an area that half size of Texas. reef only begun recovering after two consecutive years of hot waters led to massive coral bleaching in 2016 and 2017.

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