CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering mass coral bleaching Some corals have turned a ghostly white due to extreme heat stress.

Detailed explanation-2: -Though the Great Barrier Reef’s existence had been recognised by Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Island people for thousands of years, it’s Captain James Cook who has been credited with the discovery of the Great Barrier Reef. The British explorer discovered the Reef when his ship ran aground on it in 1770.

Detailed explanation-3: -The greatest threat to the Reef is climate change. The other main threats to the Reef include: poor water quality from land-based run-off. impacts from coastal development.

Detailed explanation-4: -Stretching for 1, 429 miles over an area of approximately 133, 000 square miles, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world. The reef is located off the coast of Queensland, Australia, in the Coral Sea.

Detailed explanation-5: -Indonesia has the largest area of threatened coral reefs, with fishing threats being the main stressor on coral reefs. More than 75% of the coral reefs in the Atlantic are threatened. In over 20 countries and territories in this region, all coral reefs are rated as threatened.