Shark Bay: A World Heritage Site at catastrophic risk
Friday, February 8, 2019 - 07:22
in Earth & Climate
The devastating bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and 2017 rightly captured the world's attention. But what's less widely known is that another World Heritage-listed marine ecosystem in Australia, Shark Bay, was also recently devastated by extreme temperatures, when a brutal marine heatwave struck off Western Australia in 2011.