Great Barrier Reef’s record coral cover is good news but climate threat remains

05/08/2022 20:00 The Guardian

The world heritage site still has some capacity for recovery but the window is closing fast as the climate continues to warm• Get our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastThe Great Barrier Reef is one of the planet’s natural jewels, stretching for more than 2,300km along Australia’s north-east.But as well as being a bucket-list favourite and a heaving mass of biodiversity across 3,000 individual reefs, the world heritage-listed organism is at the coalface of the climate crisis.Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading...

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