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‘Wake-up call to humanity’: research shows the Great Barrier Reef is the hottest it’s been in 400 years

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The Great Barrier Reef has suffered five mass bleaching events in the past nine summers .

Back-to-back bleaching is likely to be catastrophic for the reef, because it thwarts the chances of corals recovering between bleaching and dying.

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The future of one of Earth ’s most remarkable ecosystems depends on all of us. The authors of this piece gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Andrew King , Ariella Arzey, David Karoly , Janice Lough , Tom DeCarlo and Brad Linsley and the producers of the coral data which made this study possible..