Coral bleaching badly affected reefs of Kimberley, study finds

Up to 80% of Kimberley’s inshore reef bleached in El Niño heatwave of 2016, with about 29% of the coral at Rottnest, off Perth, also affectedUp to 80% of coral in inshore reefs in the Kimberley was bleached during the global mass bleaching event that also affected 93% of the Great Barrier Reef in the summer of 2016-2016, according to new research.Led by scientists from the University of Western Australia and published in Scientific Reports this week, the research found between 57% a