'Huge wake up call': Third of central, northern Great Barrier Reef corals dead

By Peter Hannam
Updated May 30 2016 - 5:14pm, first published 12:57pm
Researchers inspected 84 reefs and found coral mortality rates of 50 per cent or more in the north of the Great Barrier Reef. Photo: James Cook University
Researchers inspected 84 reefs and found coral mortality rates of 50 per cent or more in the north of the Great Barrier Reef. Photo: James Cook University
Dying corals in the Great Barrier Reef after the worst bleaching event on record. Photo: James Cook University
Dying corals in the Great Barrier Reef after the worst bleaching event on record. Photo: James Cook University