Back in 2016 the Great Barrier Reef suffered its worst mass coral bleaching. So bad was the event that a US magazine published a satirical obituary for the reef. The article caused a stir in Australia - and research by Kerrie Foxwell-Norton at Griffith University suggests it might have done more harm than good. Read more: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1329878X211055852

And in more new research, Joseph Maina from Macquarie University has found that 70% of the most important coral reefs remain inadequately protected. The key is connectivity - some reefs are important sources of fish larvae, and help replenish fish on other reefs. Find out more: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg4351