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March 27, 2020

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