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Rebuild it, shade it, breed it: three tactics to buy time for the Great Barrier Reef
Graham Readfearn
Can the world’s greatest coral reef system be rescued from the rapid march of the climate crisis?
With global temperatures already about 1C higher than pre-industrial levels, Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef has been through three mass bleaching events in only five years.
Corals are dying and the system is changing rapidly as temperatures keep going up and greenhouse gases keep accumulating in the atmosphere.
Earlier this week, the Australian government revealed a $150m research and development program to build the reef’s resilience to future warming.
Ken Anthony, a principal research scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, said: “It’s a bit like the Apollo 11 mission. It really is on that scale. We have to be able to look Australians in the eye in in 10 years’ time and say that in the time we had, we did our best.”
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