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By roughly what proportion had the Great Barrier Reef's coral cover declined between 1995 and the mid-2020s?
Answer
About half
Studies published by the Australian Institute of Marine Science found that the Great Barrier Reef lost approximately half of its coral cover between 1995 and the early 2020s, driven primarily by rising ocean temperatures causing repeated mass bleaching events.
💡 Did you know?
Australia's Great Barrier Reef stretches 1,400 miles but has lost half its coral cover since 1995, largely unseen by distant observers.
Other options people guess
- About one-quarter
- About one-tenth
- About three-quarters
Topics
- australia
- great-barrier-reef
- coral
- environment
- ocean
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