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Second year of widespread bleaching underway on the Great Barrier Reef

March 30, 2017
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On the heels of 2016's devastating mass bleaching event at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, tourists and park managers are reporting thermal stress and mass bleaching again in early 2017.