Great Barrier Reef at 'terminal stage': scientists despair at latest bleaching data

‘Last year was bad enough, this is a disaster,’ says one expert as Australia Research Council finds fresh damage across 8,000km • ‘Australia’s politicians have betrayed the reef and only the people can save it’Back-to-back severe bleaching events have affected two-thirds of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, new aerial surveys have found.The findings have caused alarm among scientists, who say the proximity of the 2016 and 2017 bleaching events is unpreceden