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Rejoice! Two-thirds of Australia's Great Barrier Reef recorded the greatest amount of coral cover in almost 40 years,Climate change has absolutely gutted the reef. Warming seas increased both the frequency and intensity of underwater heatwaves — the leading cause ofAnd yet: Per the AIMS report, the northern and central areas of the vital undersea habitat are showing encouraging signs of recovery.
"Every summer the Reef is at risk of temperature stress, bleaching and potentially mortality," AIMS CEO Paul Hardisty . "The 2020 and 2022 bleaching events, while extensive, didn't reach the intensity of the 2016 and 2017 events and, as a result, we have seen less mortality."As AIMS reports, hard coral cover levels — that is, the proportion of the reef blanketed by living, stony coral — reached 33 percent in the reef's central region, and 36 percent in the northern region.
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