Corals Have ‘No Reprieve’ as the Great Barrier Reef Faces Its Latest Bleaching Event

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Increasingly frequent marine heat waves are hammering away at the world’s coral reefs, scientists say.

By Kiley Price

For the past nine months, the world has repeatedly smashed heat records on land. But February marked a particularly unsettling record for the ocean: Average global sea surfaces climbed to the hottest temperatures ever recorded of any month since at least 1979, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service.