Rising ocean temperatures are cooking the Great Barrier Reef to death

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef offers dramatic evidence of the reality of climate change. Scientists have found an astonishing two-thirds of the reef undergoing mass coral bleaching as warmer ocean temperatures are basically boiling them to death. James Kerry, a scientist with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, told CNN when ocean temperatures are hot for long periods of time, corals don’t simply bleach but "cook and they die very quickly."

by Lacy Cooke

Rising ocean temperatures are cooking the Great Barrier Reef to death