What is killing the Great Barrier Reef? How are people trying to help the Great Barrier Reef? Did the Great Barrier Reef really die? Is the Great Barrier Reef really dead?
For unexplainable reasons, the Queensland government has continued to support expanding coal mines and ports.
Coal is considered a dying industry and it also damages the Great Barrier Reef’s health. Just recently, the Queensland Labor Party approved Adani’s Carmichael megamine – set to be the largest in Australia. Professor Terry Hughes, the Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, recently surveyed were experiencing bleaching and may.
The craziest part, though? As we pump more and more greenhouse gases into the sky, the oceans too have become poisoned. See full list on greenpeace. Oceans absorb carbon dioxide and it is estimated that they have soaked up over of the excess COthat has been released by humans.
When they absorb this carbon dioxide, the oceans actually undergo chemical changes and become more acidic.