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Australia has pledged more than $350 million to help protect and preserve the Great Barrier Reef 鈥� which is increasingly experiencing 鈥渟hocking鈥� amounts of coral bleaching. The new funding will be the single largest investment for reef conservation and management in the country鈥檚 history.

, professor of earth sciences at 黑料不打烊鈥檚 College of Arts & Sciences, researches marine paleoecology and paleoclimate. Ivany says funding to research and restore the Great Barrier Reef is critically important 鈥� but doesn鈥檛 get to the heart of the crisis.

Ivany says:

鈥淚 applaud the significant investment being made by the Australian government in an effort to combat the many challenges faced by the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem. But while funding for research and restoration is always critically important, the real issue at the heart of Great Barrier Reef troubles is climate change.

鈥淭he warmer it gets, the more severe will be the impact of natural variations like El Nino.聽Heat waves are getting warmer, longer, and more frequent, causing ever-more reef coral to bleach and die. Nearly a third of the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem suffered catastrophic losses in the most recent El Nino. This problem won鈥檛 get better unless we can get warming in check.鈥�

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