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4th Global mass coral bleaching in Great Barrier Reef
March 16 , 2024
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- A widespread coral bleaching event has engulfed the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia.
- The reef is spread over an area larger than Italy.
- Climate change is the greater threat to the GBR and other coral reef ecosystems across the world’s oceans.
- The GBR stretches across 2,300 km and is made up of around 3,000 individual reefs.
- Mass coral bleaching events have been witnessed in the past, starting from 1998 and then reported in 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022 and the latest in 2024.
- The current coral bleaching event marks the fifth event in the past eight years.
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