Divers say less than 5% of Great Barrier Reef is dead, not half

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A team of divers is pushing back on a so-called second mass bleaching event occurring on the Great Barrier Reef, which media reports said affected 50 to 60 percent of Cape York region. Scientists from the government-funded ARC center also found a 35 percent mortality rate, with an ultimate death toll topping 90 percent. That’s […]

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March 20, 2017 at 07:28AM