ALSO READ:* Great Barrier Reef bleaching hits 'severe' level* Warming seas damage 93% of Great Barrier Reef* It's hard to find Dory on the Great Barrier ReefReuters A tourist swims on the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists send coral reef plea to AustraliaShane Cowlishaw The Great Barrier Reef from the air. "We are not ready to write the obituary for coral reefs," said Hughes, who is also the president of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies in Australia. In the northern third of the Great Barrier Reef, close to half of the corals have died in the past three months. The heads of state from Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands attended the conference and will provide a plan to help save their ailing coral reefs.

Source: Stuff June 25, 2016 22:04 UTC