{"id":14721,"date":"2020-04-08T12:13:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T06:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14721"},"modified":"2020-04-08T12:13:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T06:43:55","slug":"record-sea-temperatures-cause-third-mass-bleaching-of-great-barrier-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/record-sea-temperatures-cause-third-mass-bleaching-of-great-barrier-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"Record sea temperatures cause third mass bleaching of Great Barrier Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Great Barrier Reef is the world\u2019s largest and longest coral reef system.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It stretches for 2,300km from the tip of Cape York in the north to Bundaberg in the south in Australia.<\/li><li>It is a World Heritage Area since 1981 (the world\u2019s first reef ecosystem to be recognised by UNESCO)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/TSI11PxGbsJJ7V8vpPPCE1V1FCzh8kGNx5oXhzfB3Z187vH6g3vYBgESG9ya-nI7ZvL4PMxfuEBIRe_g2nRUXXiQ8YqXyzxRbjyA-a4iYgS1OOCV9CH92fYc9rLxbdrShdEluJ6t\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Corals:<\/strong> They are small (0.25-12 inches), soft-bodied marine organisms that live in colonies called reefs that they build using a limestone skeleton (calicle) lying at their base.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Coral bleaching:<\/strong> It occurs when corals lose the highly productive algae (termed zooxanthellae) from their tissues due to stress from high sea temperatures and solar radiation. Corals then turn white in colour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching on record. Facts: Great Barrier Reef is the world\u2019s largest and longest coral reef system.&nbsp; It is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.&nbsp; It stretches for 2,300km from the tip of Cape York in the north to Bundaberg in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/record-sea-temperatures-cause-third-mass-bleaching-of-great-barrier-reef\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Record sea temperatures cause third mass bleaching of Great Barrier Reef<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[425],"class_list":["post-14721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-coral-bleaching","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700788533,"cached_date":1704657326},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}