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It was the silence of the sea that first rattled the teenage snorkeler, followed by a sense of horror as she saw the coral below had been drained of its kaleidoscopic color. This once-vibrant site on Australia's Great Barrier Reef — a site she'd previously likened to a busy capital city — had become a ghost town, the victim of yet another mass bleaching event.
Mass bleaching events have decimated the Great Barrier Reef and will continue to wreak havoc, according to the latest IPCC report.
Australia will have more floods, bushfires and droughts and stands to lose entire ecosystems to climate change, a major international report warns.
Australia will suffer among the worst impacts of climate change unless the world cuts emissions, the second part of a blockbuster United Nations report reveals.
SYDNEY (AP) -- It was the silence of the sea that first rattled the teenage snorkeler, followed by a sense of horror as she saw the coral below had been