The Great Barrier Reef has seen better days, after a one-two punch of coral bleaching events struck it in 2016 and 2017. Warming sea temperatures have been pegged as the culprit, but that alone can't account for why the bleaching was so severe. Australian and Belgian researchers have now found that a "perfect thermal storm" of oceanographic conditions led to the 2016 mass bleaching.
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