Australia’s great barrier reef ‘very poor’ – body

CANBERRA, Australia: The government agency that manages Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has downgraded its outlook for the corals’ condition from “poor” to “very poor” due to warming oceans.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s condition report, which is updated every five years, is the latest bad news for the 345,400-square-kilometer colorful coral network off the northeast Australian coast as climate change and coral bleaching take their toll.