Cool water from the deep could protect pockets of the Great Barrier Reef into the 2080s
- Written by Chaojiao Sun, Research Group Leader, physical oceanographer, CSIRO
marcobrivio.gallery/ShutterstockFor coral reefs, climate change is an existential threat. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has endured seven mass bleaching events over the past 25 years. Five have occurred in the past eight years.
But amid the story of decline, something curious is happening. Surveys from the air and on water show a few reef...





