Browsing Panay News by Subject "barrier reefs"

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    • Australia fights UN downgrade of Great Barrier Reef health 

      Associated Press (AP) (Panay News, June 23, 2021, on page 7)
      Australia said Tuesday it will fight against plans to downgrade the Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status due to climate change, while environmentalists have applauded the United Nations (UN) World Heritage Committee’s ...

    • Bleaching 'killing' Great Barrier Reef 

      British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Panay News, May 31, 2016, on page 11)
      At least 35 percent of corals in the northern and central parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have been destroyed by bleaching, Australian scientists say. The experts from James Cook University ( JCU) say it is the ...

    • Great Barrier Reef suffers third mass bleaching 

      BBC (Panay News, March 27, 2020, on page 11)
      Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has suffered another mass bleaching event – the third in just five years. Warmer sea temperatures –particularly in February – are feared to have caused huge coral loss across the world’s ...

    • Heat waves 'cook' corals at Great Barrier Reef 

      British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Panay News, April 20, 2018, on page 12)
      Prolonged ocean warming events, known as marine heatwaves, take a significant toll on the complex ecosystem of the Great Barrier Reef. This is according to a new study on the impacts of the 2016 marine heatwave, published ...