News Headline
Great Barrier Reef: Mass decline in 'coral babies', scientists say
Source
BBC News
Publication Date
2019-04-04
The number of new corals on Australia's Great Barrier Reef has plunged by 89% since unprecedented bleaching events in 2016 and 2017, scientists say. The events, which damaged two-thirds of the world's largest reef system, are now being blamed for triggering a collapse in coral re-growth last year.