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Australia's Great Barrier Reef hit by 'worst' bleaching
Description: Evidence that Australia's Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst coral bleaching on record has renewed calls for the UN to list it as "in-danger". The National Coral Bleaching Taskforce says 95% of reefs from Cairns to Papua New Guinea are now severely bleached. It says only four reefs out of 520 have no evidence of bleaching. [Source: BBC News]
URL: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-35914009
Availability: Full Text
Source: BBC News
Publish Date: 3/29/2016
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