Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, a 25 million-year-old ecosystem and home to 1,625 species of fish, is on life support. Reports suggest about 93 percent of the reef has succumbed to bleaching, largely the result of climate change.
Spanning 1,400 miles, larger than the United Kingdom, the reef could soon become extinct. Bleaching is the result of increased acidity due to CO2 entering the oceans from the environment
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