How dead is the Great Barrier Reef?

Coral bleaching is the biggest threat to the Great Barrier Reef. But it's too early for obituaries.
Start your Audible 30-day free trial at http://www.audible.com/vox

Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO

Sources:
https://www.eposters.net/pdfs/the-2014-2016-global-coral-bleaching-event-preliminary-comparisons-between-thermal-stress-and.pdf
http://www.globalcoralbleaching.org/
http://catlinseaviewsurvey.com/gallery
https://www.coralcoe.org.au/media-releases/two-thirds-of-great-barrier-reef-hit-by-back-to-back-mass-coral-bleaching
https://www.coris.noaa.gov/activities/reef_managers_guide/reef_managers_guide.pdf
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12093
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0114321
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep39666
https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=61021753%40N02&view_all=1&text=coral
NBC 1970 https://archive.org/details/greatbarrierreef
Guillaume Debever https://vimeo.com/82607901
Martin Lalonde https://vimeo.com/119572437

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world and the only living structure visible from space. Although ecosystem managers in Australia have worked hard to preserve the reefs, the past couple of decades have brought a new threat that can't be solved by any one country alone: human-induced global warming. Rising ocean temperatures have caused mass coral bleaching in coral reefs around the world, in every tropical ocean from the Caribbean to the South Pacific. This is now considered to be the biggest threat that coral reefs face, and they face many, including overfishing, pollution, storm damage, and invasive species.

Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app.

Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H
Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

Próximo episódio

S01E374 - How tap dancing was made in America