Global Warming News: Great Barrier Reef Is Dying; Cause Of Death, Coral Bleaching

Global warming is here, there will be no escape. Temperature is rising and more oceans are being destroyed. Recently, experts have shown that one of the largest reefs in Australia is being affected. The Great Barrier is going to die soon because of climate change.

The great barrier reef is located in Australia and stretches up to 1,400 miles. Now, it has been seriously damaged because of the rising water temperature. There is no way that the reef can heal itself.

Researchers previously reported in May that more than a third of corals and northern parts of the reef has died and 93 percent of individual reefs were infected with coral bleaching. The warm water causes the corals to drive out algae living in their tissue and causes it to completely white. As corals depend on the symbiotic relationship with protozoa an algae-like single cell. When the protozoa are expelled the corals will stop growing and sometimes die, according to Telegraph.

CEO of the Australian Climate Council Amanda McKenzie and the team conducted a new research and found that the damage to the great barrier reef has worsened instead of repairing. They said that at the start of this year, experts described that the reed is 110 alive. After the event of coral bleaching in May, they saw that the coral was bleached very white. She added that "Another 19-20 percent was covered in sludgy brown algae. Even of what remained healthy, some looked a bit on edge. "When we went back a few weeks ago to see if they [the affected corals] had recovered or died, quite a large proportion had died."

Amanda Mckenzie estimated in the coral site that they visited in the popular offshore reef from Port Douglas half of the bleached coral are found dead. She shared that "She said delicate corals had been particularly badly affected: while strong 'brain corals' had mostly survived, many fragile varieties, such as plate corals, had died." Not only corals are dying also species of fish are declining, as reported by Express.