In Australia, marine ecosystems affected like never by global warming

Dark year for Australia. However, Unprecedented disasters affect its marine ecosystems on three of its four coasts. On Wednesday. August 6, a australia, marine ecosystems affected like government report announced that the large coral barrier, northeast of the continent island, had undergone the most serious whitening episode ever recorded since the surveys, around forty years ago. In February, experts announced that the Ningaloo reef, on the West Coast, also underwent an unprecedented generalized whitening. In mid-March. the authorities in the south of the country noted the beginning of a proliferation of toxic algae which, since then, caused a massacre, among nearly 400 marine species.

These disasters. caused by the extreme marine heat wave of 2024-2025, are all challenges for Canberra which aims to co-organize, with the island states of the Pacific, the COP31, in 2026.

The whitening episode of the large coral barrier is the most extensive and the most severe ever recorded. “The main cause is global warming”underlines Mike Emslie. responsible for the research of the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences, the australia, marine ecosystems affected like organization which studied the health of 124 coral reefs between August 2024 and May of this year to make the report.

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