Is The Great Barrier Reef Actually Dead?
There's been a lot of back and forth on the health of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. So what's the status of its coral? Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal of ...
==========
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: 133,000 square miles! Nearly 400 different types of coral! And it’s all dead. Wait, no it’s not. Yea, it is. Well maybe a little. Depending on who’s posting on your Facebook feed, the Great Barrier Reef is either doing just fine or it’s teetering on the brink of destruction. So should you cancel those tickets to Australia? Is there even anything left to see? A coral reef is an underwater structure made of, you guessed it corals. And while those corals might look like a collection of snazzy-looking rocks, they’re actually the exoskeletons of living invertebrates. They eat, reproduce, grow, all the stuff anything else living in the water does. They also drop dead if the conditions they’re living in aren’t quite right. Conveniently, c...
==========
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: 133,000 square miles! Nearly 400 different types of coral! And it’s all dead. Wait, no it’s not. Yea, it is. Well maybe a little. Depending on who’s posting on your Facebook feed, the Great Barrier Reef is either doing just fine or it’s teetering on the brink of destruction. So should you cancel those tickets to Australia? Is there even anything left to see? A coral reef is an underwater structure made of, you guessed it corals. And while those corals might look like a collection of snazzy-looking rocks, they’re actually the exoskeletons of living invertebrates. They eat, reproduce, grow, all the stuff anything else living in the water does. They also drop dead if the conditions they’re living in aren’t quite right. Conveniently, c...
