Australia's Great Barrier Reef Suffers Record Coral Loss After Fifth Mass Bleaching Event
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffers record coral loss after fifth mass bleaching event
A new report from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) confirms the deteriorating state of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). The study assesses coral cover – and by extension, reef health – one year after the reef experienced its fifth mass bleaching event since 2016.Read Entire Article
According to the Australian Institute of Marine Science, coral reefs in the North and South regions of the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living ecosystem stretching about 2,400km off the coast of Queensland, have seen their biggest decline in coral reef in 39 years since monitoring began.
Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef off the northeast coast of Australia has reached record levels.
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has lost as many corals as never before. Experts speak of a mass coral bleach.
Substantial impacts from 2024 mass coral bleaching and cyclones in Australia
A new report by the Australian Institute of Marine Science’s Long-Term Monitoring Program (LTMP), published 6 August 2025, presents the latest findings on coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), following the 2024 mass coral bleaching event – Australia’s fifth in just eight years and part of the Fourth Global Bleaching Event declared in April 2024. The 2024 bleaching event had the largest spatial footprint of any bleaching event recorde…
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