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Weird plants thrive in arid places
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in 2024, 2020 and 2017 reached the highest temperature in at least four centuries, according to a new study. Ove Hoegh Guldberg, the study’s coauthor, said that the GBR is at risk of bleaching in the near future. “It’s possible, if we take the correct action on greenhouse gasses, to…
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The temperature of the Great Barrier Reef has reached a 400 year high
A study published in Nature has stated that the average surface temperature of the Great Barrier Reef between January-March 2011 was the highest on record. It added that the reef’s surface temperature during the time period reached an average of 1.73C above the 1618–1899 average. However, the impact of this year’s mass bleaching event wasn’t…