Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180609:20:31:00
Godfather of coral gives me a guided tour. with a few short strokes, we dive into a vibrant underwater universe, a place where living coral, some of it centuries old, provides shelter and food for countless species of marine life. but then veron takes me to a nearby patch where the coral is dead as far as the eye can see. these coral forests cooked to death by record marine heat waves in 2016 and 2017. >> it's about half of all the corals of the great barrier reef, killed off. >> reporter: in just two years? >> two years. >> reporter: australia is now in a race to save what's left of the reef....
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