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Climate Change Pushes Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to the Brink

HeadlineMar 27, 2020

In climate news, extreme ocean temperatures along Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have sparked the third major coral bleaching event in the last five years. A recent study by University of Hawaii researchers predicts pollution and climate change will destroy 70 to 90% of coral reefs worldwide over the next two decades.

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