2024 Great Barrier Reef bleaching event is the most widespread and most severe mass bleaching and mortality event ever recorded on the Great Barrier Reef

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You may have seen Terry Hughes featured in the Netflix documentary Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet with David Attenborough on the planetary limits and potential for collapse. Here he is on twitter stating the above. Needless to say he is a coral reef biologist who lives in Australia and has been studying this for decades. Annually, fisheries in coral reef ecosystems yield at least 6 million metric tons of fish catches worldwide and provide employment for millions of fisherman. Reefs are an important source of proteins for poorer countries.