The results show ocean temperatures that were stable for hundreds of years begin to rise from 1900 onwards as a result of human influence, the research concludes
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The reef, the world’s largest living ecosystem, stretches for some 1,500 miles off the coast of the northern state of Queensland. The research is rare in putting the effects of man-made climate change into historical context, as other surveys on damage to the reef have a shorter time frame. From 1960 to 2024, the study’s authors observed an average annual warming for January to March of 0.12°C per decade.
“The world is losing one of its icons,” said Benjamin Henley, an academic at the University of Melbourne and one of the study’s co-authors. Coral reefs protect shorelines from erosion, are home to thousands of species of fish, and are an important source of tourism revenue in many countries.
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