In April, world leaders signed the Paris agreement on climate change. That month proved to be the hottest April on record in many parts of the world, including Australia. The extensive bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef is a close-to-home example of the way in which many of the things which we have taken for granted in the past are increasingly under threat as a result of global warming.
- President Obama discusses the threat to the Great Barrier Reef with Sir David Attenborough »
- David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef: ABC TV April 2016 »
- April 2016: World leaders signed 2015 Paris agreement on climate change »
- Brisbane weather: Queensland swelters through its hottest April »
- Great Barrier Reef bleaching is just one symptom of ecosystem collapse across Australia »
- Great Barrier Reef bleaching would be almost impossible without climate change »
- Great Barrier Reef bleaching stats are bad enough without media misreporting »
- Turnbull Government 2016 Budget hurts struggling Reef »
- Rising sea levels blamed for wiping out five remote reef Solomon Islands »
- Great Barrier Reef: Report warns next term of government will seal its fate, Climate Council says »
- Tourism operators plea for government action on the Great Barrier Reef »
- Saving the Great Barrier Reef and climate change should be key election issues »