{"id":88721,"date":"2017-03-20T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=88721"},"modified":"2017-03-16T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T14:30:16","slug":"australia-great-barrier-reef-survival-relies-on-halting-warming-study-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/03\/australia-great-barrier-reef-survival-relies-on-halting-warming-study-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia: Great Barrier Reef Survival Relies on Halting Warming, Study Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst bleaching on record.
Image copyright Brett Monroe Garner<\/p><\/div>\n

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef can be saved only if urgent steps are taken to reduce global warming, new research has warned.<\/em><\/p>\n

16 Mar 2017 – <\/em>Attempting to stop coral bleaching through any other method will not be sufficient, according to scientists.<\/p>\n

The research, published in the journal Nature<\/a>, said bleaching events should no longer be studied individually, but as threats to the reef’s survival.<\/p>\n

The bleaching – or loss of algae – in 2016 was the worst on record<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Climate change is the single greatest threat to the Great Barrier Reef,” said co-author Prof Morgan Pratchett, from Queensland’s James Cook University.<\/p>\n

“It all comes down to what the governments in Australia and around the world do in terms of mitigating further rises in temperatures.”<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iICwB0Nzxc4<\/p>\n

Mass coral bleaching<\/strong><\/p>\n